Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.
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The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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You know, you can tell the difference between a terrorist and a toddler. On a terrorist, the diaper is gonna be on the head, all right? That's how you can tell the difference. very loud applause It's upsetting. Unbelievable. They got absolutely nothing in common except both diapers are full of crap.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
