Francis Scott Key Quotes
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.
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When I go out, I love to put on mascara and lipstick, but I simply don't have time for leisurely facials and treatments. Going to the beauticians is not a priority for me, as when I'm off work, there is always so much catching up in the house to do.
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The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
