Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
Yael Stone -
Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
Pankaj Mishra -
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig -
People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
Dan Gilbert -
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
Gavin Newsom -
China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
Gary Locke -
You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
Fionn Whitehead -
Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
Edgar Lee Masters -
I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
Felicia Day -
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Paracelsus
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I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.
Jay Parini -
I grew up in Newport, so I went to Boston growing up. The city holds a lot of special memories of my childhood, like the Swan Boats and Make Way for Ducklings.
Joanna Going -
I like going in the ocean and leaving my hair for two days with the saltwater beachy look. I think that is part of the reason I would love to cut my hair short. I just wouldn't ever have to think about it.
Emily Ratajkowski -
'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.
James Bobin -
Rushdie is a hostage.
Don DeLillo -
I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.
Phil Robertson
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We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.
Bobby Knight -
Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
Immanuel Kant -
I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.
Phillip Noyce -
Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.
Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons -
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
David Bailey -
Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
Steve Allen