Ian Barbour Quotes
Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
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Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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Men wanna be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.
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Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
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I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets.
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When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.
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Ignorance and its hand-maidens, prejudice, intolerance, suspicion of our fellowman, breed dictators and breed wars.
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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter if it's a physical intelligence or emotional intelligence.
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Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.
