Richard Jenkins Quotes
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
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I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.
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You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
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Both Iraqis and coalition people often exaggerate the role of foreign infiltrators and downplay the role of Iraqi resentment in the insurgency.
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But if the feelings are mutual, I open my heart without restriction. I’m not afraid to say 'I love you'.
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Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
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It takes courage to say, “I need help” and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.
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There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.
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We cannot transform what we refuse to engage.
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I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.
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I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
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The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
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Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
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A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.
