Bernard Lonergan Quotes
The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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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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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
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A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.
