Dorothy Thompson Quotes
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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Every living being has the potential to become a Buddha: someone who has completely purified his or her mind of all faults and limitations and has brought all good qualities to perfection.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
