James A. Leach Quotes
Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
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Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
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There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.
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I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
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I grew up in Brooklyn.
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I'm horrified to find, as I look at these diaries of twenty-five years ago or more, that I don't remember who the people were. 'Bill and Tony were constantly in and out. We went to La Jolla' - or something. I haven't the bluest idea who they were!
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The best part of getting to do what you like is just doing it. That doesn't have to do with being famous or even successful or even powerful. I see people in life who are just doing a job and seem to be having a good time. And that's the trick.
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Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
