Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

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• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.

  

  Ma Huateng
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  • Economy
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• At 8, I made a pact with God.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

  

  Ward Churchill
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• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

  

  Dan Devine
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• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  

  Ted Olson
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• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

  

  Kate Millett
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• I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• Little said is soon amended.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
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• The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
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• Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

  

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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• I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

  

  Josh Schwartz
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• Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

  

  Ray Conniff
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• I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.

  

  Stewart Udall
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