Thaddeus Stevens Quotes
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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Love food and I love to eat.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters...In between two of the segments she asked me...'But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?' I said, 'Type faster.' This was widely quoted, but the 'six months' was changed to 'six minutes,' which bothered me. It's 'six months.'
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Trust me, I’ve read your German sageTo far more purpose e’er than you did;You find it in his wisest page,Whom God deludes is well deluded.
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They who no longer believe in principles still proclaim them, to conceal, both from themselves and others, the selfishness of the motives by which they are dominated.
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When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
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We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.
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I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am.
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The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.
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I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.
