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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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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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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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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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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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.
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I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.
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It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.
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I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.
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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.
