William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.William Sloane Coffin
Quotes to Explore
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Islam means peace.
Malala Yousafzai -
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham -
I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
Gavin MacLeod -
From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
Ban Ki-moon -
There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
Carlene Carter
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
Jackee Harry -
In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
Nate Berkus -
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
Jackie Chan -
I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
Vince Cable -
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
Rachel Cusk -
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Jack Kemp -
I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
Randolph Scott -
I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever loved.
Hank Stram -
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
T. E. Hulme -
I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
Cara Delevingne -
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Everyone has to die. I'm not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.
Ennio Morricone -
Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
Tadashi Yanai -
I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.
Ewan McGregor -
At first I didnt give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didnt take him like they did to Ali. I think people wont fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.
Lennox Lewis -
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
William Sloane Coffin