Sarah Churchwell Quotes
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 'Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?'
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry about.
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I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.
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The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
