William Sloane Coffin Quotes
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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The writer is all alone.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.
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I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.
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People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
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Imagining the future may be more important than analysing the past.
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It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
