Marlin Fitzwater Quotes
I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.
Quotes to Explore
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.
