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.
Earl Warren
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Gao Xingjian
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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.
Plato
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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.
Plato
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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.
William Shakespeare
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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.
Sarah Shahi
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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.
Geoff Rickly
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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.
Rachel Cusk
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Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!
Mikhail Bulgakov
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My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!
Charles Dickens
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I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.
Adam Sandler
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A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.
Richard Jenkins