Johannes Tauler Quotes
The mystery of our union with God affected by the Eucharist, is a union more intimate than the human mind can conceive.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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I don't really chase trends and fads because they are fleeting.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself. And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.
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The mystery of our union with God affected by the Eucharist, is a union more intimate than the human mind can conceive.
