Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Holy cow!
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At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.
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The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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I have a great family, I have great friends, and my mom is like my mama bear. She's the one that's going to tell me 'no' when everyone around me says 'yes.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
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The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.
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I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It's ridiculous. I'll call her and be like, 'I saw this dress, can I get it?' And she'll say, 'Margaret, whatever. Get the dress.'
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'The One I Love' came out in theaters for the enthusiasts and did a chunk of business on VOD. But when it started streaming on Netflix, it exploded. Same thing with 'Safety Not Guaranteed.'
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I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
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We've eliminated a whole major attack vector with the worst kind of virus that exists.
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Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's — the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train — there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.
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Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
