James Fallows Quotes
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
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The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.
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We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my parents were funny, so I think that I always felt comfortable using comedy in my real life.
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The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
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Oh, hide me in your gloom profound, Ye solemn seats of holy pain! Take me, cowl'd forms, and fence me round, Till I possess my soul again; Till free my thoughts before me roll, Not chafed by hourly false control!
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I'm not a movie star, but I've been an actress forever, and the first time I went on a date with my husband, he said to me, 'So I hear you're an actress. I've never seen anything you've done.' We were like, oh gosh, 21 when I met him, and I laughed, because I'd done 'Life Goes On,' and 'Christy,' and I mean, I'd been working forever.
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...those who think their God ... has nowhere so plainly shown himself as in his works, will seek in the face and lineaments of Nature that consoling smile which every lonely soul so miserably craves ... betake thee to the fields; betake thee to the woods ... thou shalt be comforted ... Lay thy tired head on Nature's breast ... always there is at hand the Infinite and the Eternal: about thee, above thee ...
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Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.
