Jacques Maritain Quotes
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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We just here to do our job.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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We don't care if you understand us.
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You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.
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Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
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Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.
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Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.
