Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
