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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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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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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I grew up always thinking that fighting for justice was our obligation, whether that's giving your voice to something, serving as a verbal advocate for someone, or physically being in spaces or occupying space to make and create change.
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The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.
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Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.
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I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.
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My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.
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Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
