Bill Kurtis Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I am concerned that Millennials are stressed out. They have a higher suicide rate than other generations at their same age. They have the highest diagnosis of depression at their age than other generations. I think we have raised a generation that does not know how to be sad. They are programmed for success and the threat of failure is devastating.
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My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.
