"Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah.""

-- Ernest Renan

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“Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!”
“But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.”

Source : "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.
“Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.”
“I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.”
“To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.”
“Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.”

Source : John Rawls, Erin Kelly (2001). “Justice as Fairness: A Restatement”, p.30, Harvard University Press
“The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.”
“She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.”

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