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Andrew Greeley Quotes

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

Andrew Greeley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1928

Topics

Problems Year Yesterday New Escape

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

Jerry Della Femina

Truth Telling The Truth Telling

I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.

Jenn Lyon

Comedy Sketch Write Gifted Physical

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

John Caudwell

World Real Academic Just Real World

In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism, to a celebration between black and white musicians and their music.

Melvyn Bragg

Music Black And White Time Racism

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

Steven Spielberg

Friend Mother Me Remember Hands Up

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

Intelligence Human Whatever Being

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

Roger Deakins

Simplicity Look Sitting Room Lamp

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Rogers Hornsby

Winter Sports Baseball People Wait

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Michael Kinsley

Year Conservative Activism Stay Been

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

Bobbie Gentry

Lying Euphemism

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

Philip Levine

Love Day Three Jazz Listen Hours

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

Tiffany Trump

Motivational Father Beach Swimming