"The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity."
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"If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased."
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"Just some days ago in an administrative order, [Donald Trump] overturned what the FHFA had done to reduce the premiums on people with FHA loans. And so if he's going to help poor people, why would he take away about $500 from the average home buyer, middle-class people?"
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"the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself"
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"In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat."
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"Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything."
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"Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights."
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"I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order."
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"The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came."
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"When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about."
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"Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't."
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"Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult."
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"I dislike judging myself, but I will say I would be wealthy today if I had accepted all the films that have been offered to me with large sums of money. But I've always refused, in order to do what I felt like doing."
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"What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first."
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"I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways."
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"Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!"
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"Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time."
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"Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders."
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"We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is."
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"In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research."
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