Woodrow M. Kroll Quotes
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
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As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.
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Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.
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I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.
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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.
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If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.
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I love listening to classical music.
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There's no point in living in an alternate reality.
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I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.
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When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.
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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
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I want to play Keith Richards.
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You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.
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The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.
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I'm happy to say that I am in remission. That R word is something critically important to cancer patients, especially in a disease like myeloma. But I never lose sight of the fact that there is another R word called relapse.
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There cannot be an answer until there is a prayer.
