Paul Ricoeur Quotes
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
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My owner is life and that's what I fight for.
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Fools are without number.
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I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.
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Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.
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Characters written in 1990 would be acting like idiots if they were cast into the present. For example, the reader might wonder: Why isn't she texting? Where's her cellphone? Can't she have a simple paternity test? For God's sake, look on the Internet and check him out!
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I always wanted to be like my dad.
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We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.
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I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
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When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don't do that.
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I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.
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Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.
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Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.
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Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
