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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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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Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.
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Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
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Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador.
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Reason in the western tradition has been constructed as the privileged domain of the master, who has conceived nature as a wife or subordinate other encompassing and representing the sphere of materiality, subsistence and the feminine which the master has split off and constructed as beneath him.
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A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.
