Daniel Berrigan Quotes
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
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I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.
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The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
