William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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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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The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
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I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.
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We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.
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The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
