Ernie Pyle Quotes
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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Men lie all the time.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
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On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.
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I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
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Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.
