R. S. Thomas Quotes
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. Philip Randolph
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
Gary Bauer
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
Manika
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
Daniel Berrigan
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
Taylor Swift
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
Ma Jian
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I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
Zachary Knighton
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
Ian Mckellen
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Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
Iris Apfel
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I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.
Tanith Lee
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
Iain Banks
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.
Astro
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What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.
Martin Luther
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Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.
Bill Conti
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Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.
Deborah Needleman
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But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.
Michael Shanks
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The darkness
R. S. Thomas
