Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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You drive past your old high school, and even if everybody treated you terribly, you still go take a look, don't you?
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.
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'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.
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We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
