Evan Esar Quotes
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
Barbara Deming
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
Zuleikha Robinson
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
Wallace Shawn
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
Zachary Quinto
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The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
JJ Feild
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They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
Aaron Allston
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Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true.
Barack Obama
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
Abraham Lincoln
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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
Henry Ward Beecher
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
Sophocles
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Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
Vivienne Westwood
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There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.
Morgan Freeman
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What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.
Edgar Friedenberg
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Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.
Michael Jackson
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Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.
Petra Kelly
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The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.
Evan Esar