H. Richard Niebuhr Quotes
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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As a Christian, Israel has a very special place in my heart. There's no question about that. I grew up with a Bible, and the back of the Bible has all these pictures of Israel in it. And so all these locations are incredibly significant to me personally in my faith.
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I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.
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Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
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I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.
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Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.
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The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.
