Alphonsus Liguori Quotes
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
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I thought back to my middle-school experience of having slumber parties and watching Romeo + Juliet and staring at Leo and thinking about my first kiss and what I wanted it to be like. And when you have your first real love, it's an epiphany, you know? It's like a whole new world.
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My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.
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He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
