Jozef De Veuster (Father Damien) Quotes
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.
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There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
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My kitchen in New York City is in the Richard Meier building on Perry Street, so it's ultra-modern: white, glass and transparent. It's 180 square feet, with an induction stove. Everything's hidden, so you don't see the microwave or the fridge.
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Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
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For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
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I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.
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I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.
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As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
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Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.
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I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was a historical figure at all.
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I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.
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I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.
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I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
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I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.
