Saint Ambrose Quotes
O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
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I like working on big budget films.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
