Carl Zimmer Quotes
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Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.
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To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
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Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.
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They had two really good teams those two years, but they've got a really good team this year. I'm hoping upstate this time they can really make a difference.
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The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.
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Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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A good thing never ends.
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Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
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Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.
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I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!
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Everybody can digest milk when they're little.
