David Steindl-Rast Quotes
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.
Quotes to Explore
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.
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The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.
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Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.
