James A. Leach Quotes
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
James A. Leach
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman Rushdie
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
Sally Pearson
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
George Bernard Shaw
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
Ira Sachs
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I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'
George R. R. Martin
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Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
James A. Leach