Saint Ignatius Quotes
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
Quotes to Explore
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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Women are sacred.
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
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We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
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Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.
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I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
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Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.
