Harvey Milk Quotes
If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.
Quotes to Explore
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I'm evangelical.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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I'm in good shape.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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People have said, 'You've turned your back on pediatrics.' I said, 'No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.'
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Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
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It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.
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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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I made a rule not to be on reality shows.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.
