Donald Pleasence Quotes
I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
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I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
