Andre Malraux Quotes
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
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I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
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It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.
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I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-DMC to Nina Simone.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
