George Coyne Quotes

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

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• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Should

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
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• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
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• In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

  

  Victoria Moran
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• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Today
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  • Google

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

  

  Ofra Strauss
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  • World
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• The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

  

  Olivia Munn
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  • Sports

• Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Today
  • House
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• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
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  • Today
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• If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Free
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• I hate the past - especially my own past.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
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• Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Tomorrow

• Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
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• I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Women
  • She
  • Guy

• Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Experience
  • Awesome

• In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

  

  Ian Hislop
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• And I always thought: the very simplest wordsMust be enough. When I say what things are likeEveryone's heart must be torn to shreds.That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourselfSurely you see that.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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• We human beings are story-tellers, we pass on our values through the stories we tell. This is particularly true of Catholics, who get their identity through their histories, which they see as salvation history linking them to the saving actions of Christ. So, for Catholics, doing history – passing on the values by telling stories – is a pastoral imperative. We must look where we have been in order to know where we are going.

  

  Edmund Campion
  • Human Beings
  • Histories
  • Catholics

• I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

  

  George Coyne
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