Bernard Membe Quotes
Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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People always like people, you know?
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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.
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Where there is no property there is no injustice.
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To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
