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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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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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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Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.
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Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.
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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
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Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.
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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.
