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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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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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.
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Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.
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The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le.
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Don't get involved in the interoffice politics. On 'Suits,' it can be cheeky and fun to see Rachel and Donna being gossipy, but people get caught up in that. I think in life and in the office, it's best to stay out of the drama.
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The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.
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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.
