William Sloane Coffin Quotes
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.
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Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
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As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.
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I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have as large a negative as I can.
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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
