Desmond Tutu Quotes
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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People take things so seriously.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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The United States, Russia, and China are the only three countries in the world that can launch astronauts into space. Mostly in the U.S. you see some companies trying to launch private commercial people into space, but nobody's done it yet. The only private vehicle that's made it into space so far is Spaceship 1 in 2004, and that was an effort that was funded by one of the Microsoft founders, and he spent about $20 million to develop this spacecraft to do a sub-orbital flight. And it's not the same as going into orbit, but it was a huge first step.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
