Jacques Ellul Quotes
Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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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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What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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We are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.
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It just broke my heart, and I had to get away from it. I love them to death, but they know how bad it got. It's not their fault, but I couldn't do that any longer.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
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Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.
