Jacques Ellul Quotes
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is pardoned for sexual activity.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
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Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
