Duane Michals Quotes
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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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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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I hate competition.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
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The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.
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The person that loves the least, controls the relationship.
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With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.
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I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
