Bernard Lonergan Quotes
Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.
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Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.