Bret Stephens Quotes
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.
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The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
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If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.
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I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn't all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal.
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The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.
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All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
