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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His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.
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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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If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.
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We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.
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This “freedom” put a proud people in chains And turned free men into slaves “Independence” made us weak And slaughtered us In the name of kindness This is democracy by the whip And the fear of chains With a whirlwind at its core
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Noise does not disturb me, as I think that it gives a quaint atmosphere to a picture that fully matches my vision of nature and the wild species I like to photograph.
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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.
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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.
