William Sloane Coffin Quotes

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

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  Jack Ma
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• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  

  Edmond Rostand
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• I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
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• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
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• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
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• I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Want
  • Wonder
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• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

  

  Ward Churchill
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• I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

  

  Patrick Marber
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  • Nice
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• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

  Gary Ross
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  • Years

• I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
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• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
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• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Said
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• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Listening
  • Years

• She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • People
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• When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

  

  Lord Byron
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• I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Sexy
  • Try
  • Talking

• Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Successful
  • Humans

• I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

  

  Jean Seberg
  • Hollywood
  • Accept
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• I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Years
  • Said
  • Cry