Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

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I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Joe Namath

ManYoungYoung ManIgnorantNaive

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

Joel Grey

IdeasEntertainmentThanGoesDeeper

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

Andy Cohen

CollegeNewsAlwaysYearsUpBehind

My dad's about character and bipartisanship and something greater than yourself and believing in this country and believing in the fact that we as Americans can still come together, and that's something I grew up in and feeds me every day.

Meghan McCain

CharacterDayTogetherYourselfMe

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Maya Angelou

BeautifulMyselfBibleLanguageTake

I had been a premed student, and the way you got through premed was to work extremely hard and then harder.

Ann Dowd

WorkYouStudentWayHardThrough

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

Jeff Raikes

FatherOpportunityGreatMePlan

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

John Philip Sousa

MusicHeartWriteQuitePublicSort

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

Stephen Jay Gould

NatureMyselfPlaceKnowEssence

All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.

Steven Spielberg

ResponsibilityTogetherConstitution

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

Martin Sheen

ConflictWorldThinkFightingWell

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Michelle Obama

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