Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
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A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.
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I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
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I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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People have to do what they want to do.
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.
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What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.
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The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
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Message on the Golden Record of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched into space 5 September 1977, as quoted at 'Howdy, Strangers' at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory News (19 August 2002)
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.
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Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
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Never underestimate or mock peace.
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
