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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He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.
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I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.
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No one is happy unless he respects himself.
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
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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.
