H. Richard Niebuhr Quotes
Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.
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The way governments treat their own citizens matters; it matters because it can have a direct impact on international peace and security - and on our respective national security interests.
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She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!
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Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
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The real work is in the Heart:
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Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
