John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
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My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
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I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
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I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced, but it also makes it hard to get work seen by people because if you're a creator, you do a cabaret or something, and maybe 100 people will see it and then it ends the night that you close it.
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I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
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Eternity last longest.
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I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
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I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations.
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If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
