F. E. Higgins Quotes
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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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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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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
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The end is nothing; the road is all.
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The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
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The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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When I came into my adulthood, I recognized how fortunate I was to be doing what I loved to do.
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You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
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What is life if not a gamble?
