Edward John Carnell Quotes
Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
Quotes to Explore
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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Lines 10–16
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If the past is any guide, what has happened this winter could happen again next winter and the winter after that and so on and so on. What we face is a threat to our whole way of life...The case is now surely overwhelming, there will be no solution to our difficulties which does not include some restriction on the power of the unions.
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Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.
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I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
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As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
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If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.
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The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.
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Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.
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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
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Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.
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I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.
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What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?
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People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.
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The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.
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When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
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All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.
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Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
