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We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Time
  • You
  • Try

• The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Live
  • Learning

• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Money
  • Today
  • Want

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Independent

• Growing up, I was always the small guy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Small

• People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Why
  • Choice
  • Addiction

• America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Law
  • Politics

• Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Job
  • Husband

• History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • History
  • Nations

• The Internet is a toilet. It is.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Internet
  • Toilet

• I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Vote
  • Begin

• It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Virtue
  • Take

• When I moved to Los Angeles, I thought, 'Whatever hits, I'll go that direction. If it's music, fine; if it's acting, fine.'

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Music

• When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Up
  • Why
  • Home

• Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Desert

• I am not big on jewelry, but I do love hats as an accessory, specifically snap backs and beanies.

  

  Jourdan Dunn
  • Jewelry
  • Hats
  • Snap

• We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
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