Richard John Neuhaus Quotes
One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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One can best observe a movement of the time - its dangers as well as its advantages - by scrutinising it in its strongest, most pronounced form.
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I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.
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I used practically all the money I had available.
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I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
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I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.
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Powerful, yes, that is the word that I constantly rolled on my tongue, I dreamed of absolute power, the kind that forces others tokneel, that forces the enemy to capitulate, finally converting him, and the more the enemy is blind, cruel, sure of himself, buried in his conviction, the more his admission proclaims the royalty of he who has brought on his defeat.
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The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.
