Cherrie Moraga Quotes
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
Aaron Johnson
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
Laura Wasser
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Edmond de Goncourt
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
Floyd Abrams
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
Tawni O'Dell
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
Abbe Pierre
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
Frances Farmer
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
Zoey Deutch
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
Ian Mckellen
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
A. J. Cook
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I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.
Calvin Johnson
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
Adam Cohen
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
Yann Martel
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Clearly it's going to affect the Gulf Coast economy quite a bit. You've had a lot of property damage. Basic services are down.
Ben Bernanke
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It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!
Antoine Rivarol
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A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
George Soros
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I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
William Cobbett
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To assess the damage is a dangerous act.
Cherrie Moraga