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People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.
Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans.
I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.
With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.
There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.
Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.
I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
You don't need spirituality to discover the troubles that come your way. But, it's good to know that troubles are not unique to you alone.
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.
Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.
The world we all share is the same in important respects. But in some deep ways, the lived world and its meanings are radically different.
Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.
Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.
Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.
Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.
Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.
Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.
You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.
Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.
I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.
Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.
I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.
Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.
Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193