Adolf Eichmann Quotes
Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.
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All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
