Fred Hampton Quotes
Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we're going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
Quotes to Explore
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
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Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
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What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
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Everything would be alright if everything was put back in the hands of the people, and we're going to have to put it back in the hands of the people.
