Nikolaj Arcel Quotes
But faith when we use it to make rules and control people, then it might become a bad thing.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.
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I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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I believe firmly in God's control in life.
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People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.
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Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
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In 'The Giver,' I play a character called Jonas who is a member of this community called Changeless. In this community, everyone is kept at bay emotionally and physically. They receive an injection every morning to control them from feeling things like love and pain and all natural emotions.
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If you could control somebody's attention, what would you do with it?
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We are seeing people of faith being attacked, discriminated against, and losing their jobs because they are speaking out on the marriage issue.
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Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
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Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.
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When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.
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Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.
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Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.
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But faith when we use it to make rules and control people, then it might become a bad thing.
