Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
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As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
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The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
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If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
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Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.
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We allow ourselves to unclench when we're home with our families, which is one of the truly wonderful advantages of human intimacy.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.
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I love to have massages, I think it's really important to relax. In New York, I usually go to Massage Williamsburg or Great Jones Spa.
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Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
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I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
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Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
