Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.
Quotes to Explore
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
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We celebrate those comebacks because they inspire us to believe that seemingly impossible things really are possible.
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
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The Lord has placed next to me many people, who, with generosity and love for God and the church, have helped me and been close to me.
