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“Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.”

Seems Happiness Easy Stuff Buddhism Waste Unhappy Courageous Jerk Be Courageous Lightness Weird Stuff

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within.”

Life Inspirational Seems Our Lives Positive Divine Essence

Author:Susan Jeffers

“I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.”

Book Character Seems Crazy Excuse

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I never get tired of exploring Americana or country music, and I always have a little bit of a crooner in me that never seems to go away.”

Littles Country Seems Bits Little Bit Tired Going Away Exploring Americana

Author:K. D. Lang

“I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.”

Long Stills I Can Seems Able Records Singers Thank God

Author:K. D. Lang

“We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.”

People Seems Periods Taste Musical Flash Musical Taste

Author:K. D. Lang

“People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.”

People Seems Watches Prove News Cynical Dope

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.”

People Way Want Writing Feelings Seems Natural My Own Share Tendencies Observation

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.”

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Author:Jeremy Sisto

“In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.”

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Author:Jeremy Sisto

“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.”

Years Mean Art Sometimes Problem Seems Artist Quality Audience Taste Ten Artistic Momentary Fluctuation Glitches

Author:Jerry Saltz

“It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States.”

Real States Seems Fiction Science Fiction Appetite

Author:Matt Smith

“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.”

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Author:Michael Sheen

“The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.”

People Has Beens Seems Stars Interesting Serious Areas Focused Cabinets Knowledgeable Flashy

Author:Morley Safer

“If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.”

Ifs Seems Acting Like You

Author:Parker Stevenson

“I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.”

Knows Littles Seems Spiritual Parent Understanding My Own Generations Fit Fulfillment Search For Meaning

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.”

World Sometimes Seems Deals Fate Communication Decided Corporate Electronic Communication

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.”

People Seems Form Rights Violence Worst Including Tyranny

Book:The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

“Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.”

Trying Real Done Seems Acting Keeping It Real

Author:Tom Sizemore

“The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.”

People Character Seems Interesting Fiction Complexity Within You Vitality Interesting Things Standpoint

Author:Whitley Strieber

“Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.”

Seems Might Given Profession Likes Paradoxical Limelight

Author:Audrey Tautou

“There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.”

Feelings Seems Player Personality Instance Tennis Tennis Player

Author:Daley Thompson

“The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.”

Real Seems Balance Nuclear Being Real Metaphysical

Author:E. P. Thompson

“Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.”

Thinking Needs Seems Can Do Football Roots Connections Supporter

Author:Graham Taylor

“The press seems to love pitting women against each other.”

Seems Presses

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.”

Sometimes Seems Today Order Religious Moral Opposites Saving God Love Imperatives Prevailing Proclamation Saving Love

Book:Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

Source: Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

“The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.”

People Littles Seems Religious Defects

Author:Pope Francis

“I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.”

Writing Home Seems Wanted Film Boys Taken Needed Hey Visuals Screenplays Mississippi Hometown Just Saying

Author:Tate Taylor

“The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.”

People World Reality Seems Games Dangerous Driven These Days

Author:Keith Urban

“It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.”

Knows Long Different Seems Today Lasts Know How These Days

Author:Bobby Vinton

“Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.”

Enough Seems Heard Expectations Hollywood Come Up

Author:Conrad Veidt

“We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.”

Trying Real Seems Guy Our Lives Rocks Eras Relate Realistic Rock N Roll Spandex

Author:Eddie Vedder

“It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.”

Believe Facts Seems Simple Pay Cutting Taxes Contrary Colleagues Facts Of Life Tax Cuts

Author:George Voinovich

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

People Thinking Mind Seems Able School Actors Interesting Study Psychology Becoming Doctors Medicine Becoming A Doctor

Author:Rumer Willis

“My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.”

Children Long Seems Bits Wife My Wife Like Me

Author:Brian Williams

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

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Author:Anne Frank

“A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.”

Book Real Sometimes Seems Lines Real Life

Author:Chris Ware

“People seem to think I'm Satan.”

People Thinking Seems Satan

Author:Dominic West

“Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.”

People Mean Children Seems Winning Loses Winner Loser Gifted Positive Things Gifted Children

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.”

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Author:Lawrence Wright

“Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.”

Writing Sometimes Seems Happens Situation Fronts Pages Melancholy

Author:Mike White

“I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.”

People Writing Seems Young Felt Stuff Smart Pulling Curtains Exposing Frail

Author:Mike White

“It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.”

Stories Seems Air Selling Magazines Agendas Sensational

Author:Scott Weiland

“When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.”

Heart Seems Motivation Speak Forget Race Color Gender Sincere Right Place

Author:Adam Yauch

“I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing the American people his - his finances, decision - important decisions about his investments, refuses to come clean on his time at Bain Capital and when he was really there, and, you know, be held accountable for the outsourcing of jobs and the off-shoring of jobs and shipping jobs overseas.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

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