Christopher Dawson Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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I like to improvise.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.
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I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times in a way that's completely consistent with the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
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The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'
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With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
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The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
