Paul Claudel Quotes
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
Quotes to Explore
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
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The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
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If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.
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We need to do something about the culture of violence.
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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.
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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
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Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.
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The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
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We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.
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I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
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There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.
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I think probably songwriters are gonna be the toughest critics... I think of it as a community. And we all sort of feed off of each other.
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Four personalities are bound to clash.
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I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.
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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
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My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.
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Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
