Karl Barth Quotes
God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
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Talent is very hot.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, “Oh my God, this song is totally about me.”
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.
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God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
