Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.Bernard of Clairvaux
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
Gal Gadot -
Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'
Warren Spector -
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West -
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
Damien Chazelle -
I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.
Jack Vance -
To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit Born of an ever-generating root...
Margaret Fuller -
The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.
Chuck Noll -
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
Jenna Blum -
I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.
Sheryl Crow
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
Daniel Pinkwater -
At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
Jan Schakowsky -
To enable large U.S. banks to support their clients better, the Volcker rule should be clarified.
James P. Gorman -
I was an extra in a Tia Carrere music video.
Adam Scott -
It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.
Alessandro Juliani -
I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.
Aidan Gillen
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The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers -
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
John Philip Sousa -
Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.
David Jeremiah -
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
Bernard of Clairvaux