Dorothy Day Quotes
We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christian manifesto.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
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It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.
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[Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is a real concern about that. I think the one way to go after Trump maybe is go after him as a closet Democrat. That he has supported Democrats in the past.
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When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.
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President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.
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We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christian manifesto.
