Harold Brodkey Quotes
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I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
