Walter Kasper Quotes
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.
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People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.
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The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.
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The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.
