John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes
You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
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Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.
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We tried it different ways in the first half of the season and now we just have to do it the way Mo Cheeks wants it done every night.
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It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.
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I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
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This report is not true. We are going to continue with the same strategy, the strategy of the air campaign.
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Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?
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The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
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So too the growth of modern science depended on the premise of the individual’s ability to judge evidence and argument for himself, free from the authority— though not the argument and evidence—of tradition.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
