Francis Arinze Quotes
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.
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For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
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The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
