Jacques Maritain Quotes
The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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I like being unconventional.
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Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.
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What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
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In this vast country of ours, people profess different religions, speak different languages, dress differently and observe different customs; but we are one nation; the history of our struggle for independence and our faith in our future development are our common bonds.
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The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.
