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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The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
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Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.
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The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.
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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
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More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.
