Alex Gibney Quotes
It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.'
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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I was a Republican before Donald Trump was a Republican. I was a Republican when Donald Trump was a Democrat. I was a Republican when Donald Trump was an independent. And I'm going to be a Republican when Donald Trump gets tired of being a Republican.
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I can see the greed and envy in your eyes.
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In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.
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Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
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It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.'
