Jozef De Veuster (Father Damien) Quotes
I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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You're never going to learn everything.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.
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We feel like our kids are winners. We know if we play our game, we'll win. If we're consistent, we'll win. If we don't, we'll lose. It's that simple.
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If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all to think that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.
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I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots...This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.
