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 have a big love for jazz music. The only thing I hated about singing with a jazz band was having to wear a gown to everything.
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Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
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Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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You are not asked to apply your mind continually to the thought of God and lay aside the fulfillment of your duties and your recreations.
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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.
