Saint Augustine Quotes
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
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'Republican Party, you're a lie factory, that's all you do.
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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
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You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is so much harder than it seems: to find the topics that you're passionate about and have it come across as like, 'Yeah, that guy needed to sing that song.'
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'A Christmas Story' has become such a special part of the holiday season for so many families.
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Moana doesn't have a love interest because this movie is about a journey - a physical one across hundreds and hundreds of miles of ocean, but also an emotional one of Moana finding herself. She doesn't need a man or love interest to find herself.
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Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.
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I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.
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The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
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I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.
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Just like anyone else, I watch a lot of reality TV yet will turn my nose up at some of it, e.g., ABC's 'Splash,' because I think I'm above it.
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I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
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If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
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During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ... Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.
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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
