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 always knew that I was going to be famous. I honest to God don't know how else to describe it. I used to lie in bed and wonder, 'Am I going to be a local TV person? Am I going to a motivational speaker?' It wasn't a vision. But as it's kind of happening, you have this buried understanding: 'Of course.'
Jennifer Lawrence
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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
Yann Martel
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God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.
N. T. Wright
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You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.
Christina Romer
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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
