Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
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One has to be very selective about what is essential for driving the story and what isn't. You leave out some things that are lovely, but unfortunately it is necessary.
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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
