Tertullian Quotes
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.
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Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
