Bill Amend Quotes
When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.
Quotes to Explore
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.
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Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.
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On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.
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My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.
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Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.
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Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
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We're not going to waltz into the postseason by any means.
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Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.
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I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
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I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
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One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.
