Saint Augustine Quotes
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I was a tomboy.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'
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I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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I saw The Jeff Beck Group at the Marquee Club in 1967, when he was with Rod Stewart, and holy smokes, they were amazing.
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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
