Richard Rohr Quotes
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
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I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
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When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
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There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.
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When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.
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Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like Adolf Hitler, we'd never live it down.
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I enjoy comedy and drama. A nice balance of both is great.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.
