Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
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I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
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People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
