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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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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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Our teams always play hard.
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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
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In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.
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I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.
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More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
