Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to seek new love, and for a while, I thought I'd found it with a girl from my office. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her. She would often call just to sigh at me for two hours on the phone, wanting me to applaud her depth of feeling. I cut if off, then missed her, wishing that I'd at least had the sense to take her naked photograph.
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I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.
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In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
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McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
