William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
Quotes to Explore
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Islam means peace.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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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.
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In a small space, you want to keep the bedding as simple as possible so it looks clean, calm and collected.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
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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.
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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.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
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I've lived a charmed life. I married the only girl I ever loved and did the only job I ever loved.
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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.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
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But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.
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I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.
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This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.
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People who suffer from depression have better memory than people who don’t, because part of our ability to survive and not to be depressed is to forget a lot of stuff.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
