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 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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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 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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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
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The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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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.
