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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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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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into the study of ultimate (evolutionary) causes, the subject of natural history.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
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A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.