Sarah Vowell Quotes
Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
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You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
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If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
