John Callahan Quotes
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
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When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.
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The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
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The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
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I like to wake up at six o'clock in the morning so I have a very long morning, so I have time to meditate. I can really tell that it makes a difference - the days I don't have meditation and the days when I do.
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All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.
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The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.
John Monash
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul.
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The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing.
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I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
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You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
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It has three sides missing, but it has a roof
