Francis of Assisi Quotes

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

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• There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

  

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• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

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• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

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• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

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• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

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• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

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• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

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• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

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• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

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• I hate interviews - but you have to do them.

  

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• I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

  

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• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

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• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  

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• The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

  

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• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

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• I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.

  

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• We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.

  

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• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

  

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• It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.

  

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• Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.

  

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• It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • God
  • Service