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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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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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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My life is an open book.
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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.
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When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.
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Thank God, He doesn't measure out grace in teaspoons.
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This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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I can't stand Willy wet-leg, can't stand him at any price. He's resigned, and when you hit him he lets you hit him twice.
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Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.
