Harvey Cox Quotes
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
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Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.
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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Capitals accumulate faster than the population; thus wages; thus population; thus grain prices; thus the difficulty of production and hence the exchange values.
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The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.
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When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.
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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
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I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.
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There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.
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People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.
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You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.
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Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working.
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The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.
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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
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ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.
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They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's the election of Donald Trump, or Brexit, the elites have realized that the people have stopped listening to them, that the people want to determine their futures and, in a perfectly democratic framework, regain control of their destiny.
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You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.
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In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.
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I was born and grew up in China during the 1960s.
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For a small population, Canada has always had a very strong and vibrant style.
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There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
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One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
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I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
