Pope Benedict XVI Quotes
We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Being evil is easy.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
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We’re importing radical Islamic terrorism into the West through a failed immigration system and through an intelligence community held back by our president.
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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.
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God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.
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And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
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We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world.
