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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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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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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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.
