Frederick William Faber Quotes
Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
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Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
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It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.
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I'm much more ambitious than I'd like to admit.
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When you send out real love, real love will return to you.
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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.
