Pope John Paul II Quotes
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
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Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
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Mum tries to make every race that she can.
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Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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Men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel.
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Poetry is a search for the inexplicable.
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Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
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The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.
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Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.
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I've always done drama, but I suppose 'Tyrannosaur' was a bit of a watershed moment for me. It was like when Kathy Burke did 'Nil By Mouth' - suddenly, people were saying, 'Oh, she can do that, too.'
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Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
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My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
