Allan Boesak Quotes
There are clear and predictable consequences for the world if human beings continue to rape the earth and plunder its resources; to exploit, oppress, and dominate the weak and the poor for the sake of greed and the hunger for power; to depend on ever-rising levels of violence and ever more lethal instruments of death and destruction in order to secure positions of power and privilege.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
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I love my country so much.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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It was the most enthralling episode in my life
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In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.
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I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.
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I have great fans that come up to me, and they just want me to sign stuff. I have a restaurant in Beverly Hills - Prego - and they come in all the time asking for me to see when I'm going to show up. That doesn't really scare me.
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Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
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In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public.
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Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.
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I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.
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Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.
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There are clear and predictable consequences for the world if human beings continue to rape the earth and plunder its resources; to exploit, oppress, and dominate the weak and the poor for the sake of greed and the hunger for power; to depend on ever-rising levels of violence and ever more lethal instruments of death and destruction in order to secure positions of power and privilege.
