Brian Oldfield Quotes
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?
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Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?
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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.
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My parents are private investigators for God's sake.
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When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
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I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.
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Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.
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When God invented man, he wanted him to look like me.
