Walter Kasper Quotes
Love goes beyond the logic of exchange; it expresses an economy of gift—that logic of abundance—in contrast to the logic of parity and the economy of exchange and calculation.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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Love goes beyond the logic of exchange; it expresses an economy of gift—that logic of abundance—in contrast to the logic of parity and the economy of exchange and calculation.
