Michael Harrington Quotes
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
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How fit is he to sway That can so well obey ('Horatian Ode,' 83-84),
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Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
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I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.
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I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.
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My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
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There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
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I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
