Daniel Berrigan Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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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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I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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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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It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
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Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.
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One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.
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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
