Eugene Rivers Quotes
Funding for faith-based charities should be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
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I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
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There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
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Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
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Women love a self-confident bald man.
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I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.
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Funding for faith-based charities should be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.
