Claudio Hummes Quotes
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
Claudio Hummes
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
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I am surrounded by great people.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
Daniel Espinosa
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
Earl Warren
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
Carine Roitfeld
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
Eddie Marsan
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Parker Stevenson
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I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.
Megan Fox
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We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers!
We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to
take it anymore!
Jimmy Buffett
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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
Dan Gilbert
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For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.
Lynn Shelton
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Those rebels who rise up to try to wrest back power from despotic forces will endure not only the violence of the state, but the hatred and vigilante violence meted out by the self-deluded victims of exploitation. The systems of propaganda will relentlessly demonize those who resist.
Chris Hedges
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
Claudio Hummes
