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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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so full of trials. But I am not old - at least in that sense; you know I am not. Oh, no man ever left the world with more inviting prospects, with brighter hopes, or warmer feelings - warmer feelings.
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If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new Prometheus bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
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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.
