Brother Roger (Roger Schütz) Quotes
Until one day I understood: you were asking me to commit myself to the point of no return.

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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
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Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.
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Until one day I understood: you were asking me to commit myself to the point of no return.