John Grierson Quotes
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I've always wanted to make a record.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.
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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
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I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
