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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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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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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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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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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Not why the addiction, but why the pain.
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The series isn't over. I've just got to wait and see. I've got to keep progressing. As long as I keep progressing, I'll keep feeling positive.
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The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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At the end of any really long tour you need to get your head in order.
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The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
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I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.
