Hans Kung Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Why couldn't four people want to get married? Why not one man and three women or three women and one man? I mean, it's disgusting.
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Was I a businessman to start with? I'm not sure. I mean, that comes slowly, when you start having the products out. But at the same time, I was very determined. I knew that I had to make it work. I had no choice.
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Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
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Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
