William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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Women are the heads of most households in our state and make the most financial decisions for their families.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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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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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
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The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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I'm only a human being.
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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
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When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.
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My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
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You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.
