Diogenes Quotes
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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Africa is the future.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
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The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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Person better and stronger, if they only take hold of what they’re dealt and make the most of it. Or they can let it overtake them and destroy them.
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It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.
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God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.
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There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
