Dee Dee Myers Quotes
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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I am a normal guy.
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Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
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I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
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No ally is better than one’s own race.
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Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
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So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'
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If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.
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Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
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Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.
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If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings!
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I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.
