Miguel de Unamuno Quotes
I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
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It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
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There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
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No animal has to suffer for me to live.
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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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The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
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Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing
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I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
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Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
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I had to learn how to think as a positive human being, before anything.
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We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of sex can lead us to resist and reject that sex assignment. How do we understand that second sense of sex? It is not the same as the first - it is not an assignment that others give us. But maybe it is an assignment we give ourselves? If so, do we not need a world of others, linguistic practices, social institutions, and political imaginaries in order to move forward to claim precisely those categories we require, and to reject those that work against us?
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I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.
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Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics.
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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
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I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
