"Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people."

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Douglas Kennedy

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“And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of a Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic? Who can dispute that they did their bloody deeds by claiming to be establishing a "new man" and a religion-free utopia? These were mass murders performed with atheism as a central part of their ideological inspiration, they were not mass murders done by people who simply happened to be atheist.”
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.”
“We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
“A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.”
“Mark it downâ€”your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.”
“At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.”
“I've dated jerks, so why not geeks?”
“I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.”

Source : "Crime does pay". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.

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