Martin Sheen Quotes
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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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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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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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 would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
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My first lesson in relativity: ..we had a still life set-up to paint. Suddenly I saw that the pitcher was so big his hands outside the shape of a pitcher, then close in and the glass was so big. From that time on everything was all right. Tobey is remembering his Saturday morning painting class
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
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An evidence that our will has been broken is that we begin to thank God for that which once seemed so bitter, knowing that his will is good and that, in His time and in His way, He is able to make the most bitter waters sweet.
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Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.
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The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
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Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
