Andrew Haigh Quotes
Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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Everything is real on me.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
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I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.
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Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.
