Antonin Sertillanges Quotes
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
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I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
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Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.
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But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.
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I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
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Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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Most of my career was negative.
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Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
