Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I am a contrarian.
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The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
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Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.
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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.
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Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.
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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
