Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
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I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.
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If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.
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Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.
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An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.
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Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress
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To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
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As fiction writers, we are entertainers.
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The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
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I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.
