Godfried Danneels Quotes

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

Godfried Danneels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
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  • Birth: June 4, 1933

Topics

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As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

Andres Serrano

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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Bayley

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I'm very close to my family; they're the most important people to me.

Sigrid

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We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

Robert Englund

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In college, I was a theater and film major at Kansas University. I always had an affinity for comedy. I could probably quote everything from 'Caddyshack,' 'Stripes,' and all those great comedies from the '80s.

Rob Riggle

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We are in a conflict, whether we like it or not. I think we have to identify the enemy and call it by its name. And the enemy is an ideology rooted in militant Islam.

Ron DeSantis

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Sometimes there's something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.

Ron Howard

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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

Michelle Bachelet

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That's why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.

David Shields

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I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.

Clifford Geertz

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I think it's important for anyone who is artistic to look back on their body of work and be critical. Maybe the Beatles can look back and say everything was perfect, but we've come up with hundreds and hundreds of dishes, and anyone who is honest with themselves has to realize that every single one wasn't an absolute, unequivocal home run.

Wylie Dufresne

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Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

William Weld

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