Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
Quotes to Explore
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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I write-down to speak-up.
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I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
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It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.
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Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
