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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There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Frank Howard Clark
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To be one of the first British females to get three gold medals, to join Laura Trott in doing that, is a huge privilege.
Charlotte Dujardin
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Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.
Miranda July
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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
Mary Karr
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
J. D. Hayworth
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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
