Rene Girard (René Noël Théophile Girard) Quotes
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When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Valerie Simpson
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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
Karen Armstrong
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
Candice Patton
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I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.
Kailash Satyarthi
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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
Zadie Smith
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I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism. And so, that was my safety net. And I always say, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire a Catholic child, who may have heard about the devil, the things that were in the closet. And no one wanted to discuss them.
Linda Blair
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The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt
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If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
William Shakespeare
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Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Harriet Martineau
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Humanity is the child of religion.
Rene Girard
