Arno Gruen Quotes
...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.
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I have had just about all I can take of myself.
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“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
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I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures have progressively become lighter and lighter, to the point now where I wonder how I can just sell the idea without any physical form. This seems to parallel human development where, as our bodies age, physicality is replaced by conceptualising and spirituality.
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...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
