"The original language of Christianity is translation."

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Lamin Sanneh

#Language Quotes #Christianity Quotes #Translations Quotes

“Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society - Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.”
“The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.”

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
“The spirit of Christmas is Christlike love.”
“I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”

Source : William Cobbett's letter, February 10, 1804.
“If I had all the money in the world, I'd be like, "Great, let's just keep doing it!" I, unfortunately, have not won the lottery or found the magic genie lamp.”
“When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.”

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