Nathan Eldon Tanner Quotes
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Apparently, something happens on the sun. It sends out a burst of gases. The reservoirs above our earth shake like a bowl of jelly. The radiation droozles out at the ends and makes the auroral displays at the North and South Poles.
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I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.
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In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.
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What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.
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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
