Alasdair MacIntyre Quotes
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
Quotes to Explore
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When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.
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If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.
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In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.
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I punched out Kathleen Hanna... Sonic Youth brought her. I punched her, and she screamed, 'I'll take you on, any college in America, any feminist debate,' and I said, 'But Kathleen, that means you're going to have to read!'
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People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
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The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
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I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.
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The first movie I produced was a movie that Joel Schumacher wrote and directed called 'Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill.'
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America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments.
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I like working with modern sounds in the studio as much as I'm happy to work with a basic rock n' roll format.
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I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.
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It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
