Tony Snow Quotes
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God.
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We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
