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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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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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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I’m pretty happy when what I’m doing touches people and inspires people.
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I think I just knew in my head there was something special about 'My Church,' and getting to accept a Grammy for it was just proof that I made the right decision.
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I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it... What happens to me is that I will fall in love with a particular ingredient or a particular dish... Once I make the decision that something has intrigued me enough to draw me in, there is no end to it.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
