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Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#close #close relationship #deal #does #else

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it. ↗

— Jimmy Greaves

#any #much #part #swearing #thing

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #course #criminal #enters #europe

You have a lot of time on these tours. As Alice Cooper said, you can either drink all day or golf. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#alice cooper #all day #cooper #day #drink

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#belief #century #christianity #core #death

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#because #better #deliberately #dumb #especially

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last. ↗

— Adolph Green

#ingredient #last #main #main ingredient #represent

The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation of non-European peoples to European civilization. The idea that people's historical experience is inessential to them, that it can be shed at will, makes it possible to argue more strongly for the Enlightenment's claim to universality: Muslims, as members of the abstract category "humans," can be assimilated or (as some recent theorist have put it) "translated" into a global ("European") civilization once they have divested themselves of what many of them regard (mistakenly) as essential to themselves. The belief that human beings can be separated from their histories and traditions makes it possible to urge a Europeanization of the Islamic world. And by the same logic, it underlies the belief that the assimilation to Europe's civilization of Muslim immigrants who are--for good or for ill--already in European states is necessary and desirable. ↗

— Talal Asad

#eurabia #europe #european #islam #modernity-tags-civilization

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter. ↗

— David Duchovny

#daughter #how #i #know #like

I love the Lower East Side. ↗

— David Duchovny

#east side #i #i love #love #lower