David Lange Quotes
Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because 'many hands make light work.' The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
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Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because 'many hands make light work.' The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.
