Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
Quotes to Explore
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
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Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.
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It's hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.
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I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Physically I feel pretty good; that's the main key, is just making sure your body is ready to play every night since you play so many games and I feel like I'm there.
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He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.
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I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
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Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.
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And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
