Haile Selassie Quotes
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
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You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.
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The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I'm supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
