F. E. Higgins Quotes
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'
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I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.
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A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.
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I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side.
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What is life if not a gamble?
