William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to be told. We don't know the functions of most of them, but they may be more vital for the planet's future sustainability than we can even dream. And we have to find out; we need to be doing this sort of study.
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Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
