Jacques Maritain Quotes
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I try to do my best.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski -
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.
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The law of simplicity and naivety applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
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A community of free men cannot exist if its spiritual base is not solely law.
