Abbe Pierre Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
