Richard Rohr Quotes
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
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I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.
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A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.
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It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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Αἴθ᾽ ὄφελον ἄγαμός τ᾽ ἔμεναι ἄγονός τ᾽ ἀπολέσθαι.
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
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The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.
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I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write anything down because you're going to end up coming back and re-writing it later. Whereas, if you write when you're feeling something, when you're really in the streak, then that's when you're going to get your best stuff.
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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
