William Sloane Coffin Quotes
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!
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We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
