Rene Girard (René Noël Théophile Girard) Quotes
More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.
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It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.
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Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.
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If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
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The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
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The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
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...he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
