William Sloane Coffin Quotes
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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I like being able to bounce between writing movies for people like Kevin Sorbo to making very personal films like orange county hardcore sinister to making a movie like Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates, which is made for the pure pleasure of getting together with creative people and making a movie. Alex Cox would be proud.
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To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
