Charles de Foucauld Quotes
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
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When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's unopening Door You gaze To-day, while You are You - how then To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?
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Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.
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Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.
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If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.
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I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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God hath his mysteries of grace, Ways that we cannot tell, He hides them deep, like the secret sleep Of him he loved so well.
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
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To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.
