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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Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters, its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart.
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We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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Love is impossible without bite marks.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
