William Sloane Coffin Quotes
To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
Quotes to Explore
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.
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When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my rusty lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the most devilish pain burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. - Harry Haller
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When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
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People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.
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I was trained on stage at NYU in New York City; I did a lot of theatre then.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
