You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.


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One of my major goals off the field is to conduct myself in a way that... parents are proud to say, ...
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS
Although the rugby league fraternity probably don't like it, the rugby union fraternity probably...
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS
I think I'm evolving, I'm always in search of bettering myself, how I can improve as a sport...
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS
When I first went to rugby, I wanted it all; I just wanted it all, and you know, I thought it was ju...
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS
We are coming out now to show to the people that the young officers [who are against the government]...
FIRST LIEUTENANT SONNY SARMIENTO
Those who are ready to fight with us are officials, ordinary soldiers, and active officers. All of o...
FIRST LIEUTENANT SONNY SARMIENTO
It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit...
TERRY TEACHOUT
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
RANDALL TERRY
If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I eve...
TERRY BRADSHAW
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments...
RANDALL TERRY
If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correctio...
RANDALL TERRY
What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stu...
RANDALL TERRY
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Ol...
RANDALL TERRY
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All ...
RANDALL TERRY
The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money ...
RANDALL TERRY
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is r...
RANDALL TERRY
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are...
RANDALL TERRY
How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and s...
RANDALL TERRY
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
RANDALL TERRY
George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong ...
RANDALL TERRY
We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily toward...
RANDALL TERRY
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
RANDALL TERRY
He who frames the question wins the debate.
RANDALL TERRY
It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other ...
RANDALL TERRY
We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dile...
RANDALL TERRY
I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
RANDALL TERRY
The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
RANDALL TERRY
I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
RANDALL TERRY
If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, the...
RANDALL TERRY
Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
RANDALL TERRY
The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredib...
RANDALL TERRY
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That ...
RANDALL TERRY
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a f...
RANDALL TERRY
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
RANDALL TERRY
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignor...
TERRY PRATCHETT
In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has idea...
TERRY PRATCHETT
There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun v...
TERRY MCAULIFFE
The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate...
TERRY CREWS
It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was rat...
TERRY GLAVIN
Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie...
TERRY WAITE
I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect t...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at partie...
TERRY EAGLETON
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that f...
TERRY SOUTHERN
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS
The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati...
TERRY GLAVIN