Bill Moyers Quotes
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
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All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
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I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
