Marquis de Sade Quotes
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
Quotes to Explore
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre, which equals a monster in just about any human’s mind. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. Forever. So the good news is that I wouldn’t have to take the geometry test tomorrow.
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Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.
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It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.
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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
