Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
Reality as one knew it was what claimed one's allegiance. Deepening experience might change one's conception of it but until that happened the life one knew was the life one had to live.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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Anytime you do anything, you want to know who was the best at it.
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Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!
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Reality as one knew it was what claimed one's allegiance. Deepening experience might change one's conception of it but until that happened the life one knew was the life one had to live.
