Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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Those who own much have much to fear.
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I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.
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When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
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Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
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Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo? I didn’t.
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My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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My ambition is peace and perfection.
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Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere licence
