James L. Farmer, Jr. Quotes
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
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There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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The great thieves lead away the little thief.
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When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
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We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
