Harvey Milk Quotes
Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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I only cook when I'm in love.
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I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
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When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
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Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me...
