"I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in."

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Source : "The Guardian profile: Mel Gibson" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2004.

Pope John XXIII

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“Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.”
“Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.”
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
“You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet.”

Source : "Chad Kroeger: My Parents Didn’t Meet Avril Lavigne Pre-Engagement" by Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. September 3, 2012.
“People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.”
“I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.”
“I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.”
“One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.”

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