Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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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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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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When they N'Sync and Aerosmith played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!
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Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
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We can sit back and be part of a hurting America, or we can channel our energy into something positive and do what we can to break the cycle of hate.
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In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
