Paul Tsongas Quotes
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.
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All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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The cold war is over; Japan won.
