Hans Kung Quotes
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
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I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
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It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
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There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
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Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.
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I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.
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I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
