Walter Riedel (Papa) Quotes
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
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Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
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Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
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We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
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It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
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I know Eddie would want the show to go on.
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.
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The opinion of the majority was in his view not what mattered; rather, it was the opinion of the wise, those guided by reason, that counted. When put on trial by a jury of 500 of his fellow citizens for purportedly denying the gods of the city and replacing them with new ones, and in general corrupting the youth – the real motive may have been his associations with certain anti-democratic political figures of the day – he defended himself, Plato tells us, by claiming that he was divinely called to lead others to the improvement of their souls. Naturally, this democratic assembly had him executed.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.
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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
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I'm convinced that a trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. is in the national interest of both countries and will cement the crucial relationship that exists between us, particularly as the U.K. leaves the European Union and reaches out to the world.
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I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis.
