Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. Now you would have me explain the miracles of Jesus. We are all the miraculous gesture of the moment; our Lord and Master was the centre of that moment. Yet it was not in His desire that His gestures be known.
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These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'
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I'm an independent woman and a feminist.
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The chief duty of our federal government is the safety and security of the American people.
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There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.
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As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
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Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesting that there's this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare. It's hardly ever done, compared to how often it's done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company - I said, "You never do Shakespeare." And he said, "Yes, we're not very good at it." And I thought, "What a terrible thing to say.".
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You could do with a day's work, I'd say.
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What instruction the baby brings to the mother!
