Karl Lehmann Quotes
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.
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I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.
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John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things.
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There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
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I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.
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I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.
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I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future.
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I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.
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Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
