Christopher Dawson Quotes
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I'm really in no one city more than two months during the year. I'm constantly having to readapt my eye to new locations.
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Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.
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I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.
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I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
