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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There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.
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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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I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
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The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
