Maureen Forrester Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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I believe clothing tell a story.
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The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.
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The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I'm a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be.
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If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.
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If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.
