Chief Joseph Quotes
We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.
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The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
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We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
