Dalton Trumbo Quotes
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
