Catherine the Great Quotes
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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No man is infallible.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.
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If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.
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How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
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Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
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[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
