To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.
David Attenborough
Related That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d... AVA DUVERNAY As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can. VINCE MCMAHON In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission. GEORGE CAREY Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of b... PETE ROSE What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has decli... SALMAN RUSHDIE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. SYDNEY SMITH David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what h... JANE BIRKIN I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be. DAVID DOBKIN Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't me... AYRTON SENNA I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can c... JIMMY CARTER There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration. BJORK As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first. LT. WAYNE HUDSON Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 Nothing is too great and nothing... A. W. PINK All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program p... OONA CHAPLIN I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of ener... DAVID DOBKIN I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It do... JAMES LAUGHLIN We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tom... DEYTH BANGER But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. STEPHANIE BEACHAM A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they sho... EWAN MCGREGOR Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 For I seek not to under... ANSELM OF CANTERBURY I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I... KAREN ARMSTRONG When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same ... BONO I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjo... LUKE SCOTT Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. J. P. MORGAN Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. THOMAS CARLYLE Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible. NICK FLYNN Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Oh, how precious is time, and ho... DAVID BRAINERD Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. CHARLES LAMB To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy. POPE FRANCIS My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. I'm going to work as hard a... PHIL BREDESEN I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial. DAVE SIM I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere... CHARLEY PRIDE I just wish that my father was still alive to see how far we have come as African Americans, HARRY JACKSON As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, L... DANIEL SUNJATA I imagine a Georgia that gives children the educational opportunity to climb as far and high as thei... CARLOTTA HARRELL Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I... ZENDAYA As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody. EDWARD BLAKE As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. DANIEL RADCLIFFE Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number soun... RYAN HOLMES As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism. MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion. ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned. DAVID KOECHNER The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of t... SUNDAY ADELAJA Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 The Son of God suffered unto the... GEORGE MACDONALD I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken. ROBERT KIYOSAKI I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all moder... ROGER WATERS As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates. PHILLIP E. JOHNSON We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic ... JASON SILVA Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as som... HALSEY I’m not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can’t believe in a God who would punish anyon... MARSHALL THORNTON First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn'... POPE FRANCIS I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn... DAVE SIM If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point... DICK DURBIN Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 The centre of trouble is not t... ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM TEMPLE I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean t... SETH SHOSTAK I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis... JOHN CLAYTON Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Ver... CESAR MILLAN It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything. ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Gu... FRANK BLACK I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my tw... BARRY JENKINS As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illu... ALAN MOORE You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN God doesn't believe in the easy way. JAMES AGEE Ontarians don't want to believe that they are small people. They want to believe that they'r... KATHLEEN WYNNE Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of ... THOMAS FULLER Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a s... ANN RICHARDS As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table. GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes. SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can. CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism. DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes. HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product. JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes. JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic. TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic. ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned. DAVE MADDEN In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime move... SIMON SCHAMA Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089 I whould be very sorr... JOHN OWEN If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... CRAIG GROESCHEL I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned. JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. HELEN REDDY As far I'm working on The life Of one Kid 7... continue! DEYTH BANGER I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don'... SANDRA CISNEROS Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; tha... IAN MCLAGAN Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing ... 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DAVID BAILEY All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa... DAVID BAILEY You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. DAVID BAILEY I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. DAVID BAILEY People want security in this insecure world. DAVID BAILEY I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. DAVID BAILEY It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea... DAVID BAILEY Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. DAVID BAILEY Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. DAVID BAILEY Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out... DAVID BAILEY I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p... DAVID BAILEY If you're curious, London's an amazing place. DAVID BAILEY I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ... DAVID BAILEY The skull is nature's sculpture. DAVID BAILEY Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. DAVID BAILEY Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me. DAVID BAILEY Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... DAVID BOWIE I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... LARRY DAVID You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... DAVID BOWIE People use irony as a defense mechanism. DAVID BYRNE Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ... DAVID BYRNE I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... DAVID BYRNE Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? DAVID BYRNE I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. DAVID BYRNE I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ... DAVID BYRNE That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you. DAVID BYRNE Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d... DAVID BYRNE If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea... DAVID BYRNE My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. DAVID BYRNE On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go... DAVID BYRNE I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car. DAVID BYRNE The arts don't exist in isolation. DAVID BYRNE There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex... 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