Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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Being evil is easy.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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For me, there's still a lot of room to grow; I'm just happy that I have so much more to give.
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When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.
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My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
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Israel says, quite correctly, that changing Israel’s ethnicity would change the idea of Israel. Well, changing America’s ethnicity changes the idea of America, too. Show me in a straight line why we can’t do what Israel does. Is Israel special? For some of us, America is special, too.
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L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
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One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
