Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
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Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.
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God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
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The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.
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Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
