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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Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.
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Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.
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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.
