Jacques Ellul Quotes
In one of the temptations Satan offers to give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, that is, the kingdoms and the related political power. …
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less.
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What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.
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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.
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In one of the temptations Satan offers to give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, that is, the kingdoms and the related political power. …
