Christopher Dawson Quotes
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!
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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
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We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.
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Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'
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At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.
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You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
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I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.
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Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
