Harper Lee Quotes
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
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Obviously, when you break a school record it means a lot. She is amazingly talented. She is doing things that typically takes two or three people to do.
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Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
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When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts by 70 percent, you have a disaster.
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Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?
