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'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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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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I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry's Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD's of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let's be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!
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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
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All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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All work and no pay makes a housewife.
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
