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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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
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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'm always awkward when someone recognizes me.
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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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I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
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You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.
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Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
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As far as cutting jobs, you could cut whole agencies out of the federal government and not miss them.
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I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.
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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.
