Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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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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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
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Praise the Lord for all good things. We blew their balls into shards of dust,Into shards of fucking dust. We did it. Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.
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Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
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My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.
