Martin Sheen Quotes
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On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
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I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
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Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.
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I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
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War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.
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We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
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George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
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Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.
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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
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Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
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When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.
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My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
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I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
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I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I saw how the other half lived, if you will.
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I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.
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Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.
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That is someone who follows the teachings of the nonviolent Jesus and takes the gospel personally, and then pays the price. I fall into that category.
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We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.
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I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.