Al Duncan Quotes

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

We’re the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it’s only the best thing for us if it’s the worst thing for someone else.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

There is nothing people can throw at me to say: Do this, do that.

We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War.

If you knowingly and willingly embark on criminal behaviour, the consequences of that should be... that you lose some of your benefits under the current system

[Andrea] Leadsom has compassion ... a real steel and a real determination and that velvet glove of compassion that she really cares about people.

I have two daughters, it really means a lot to me to have two women standing now and being the PM.

The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

My best advice about working in Hollywood is: Save your money!

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.

I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.

One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.

I always loved working in comedy.

The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'