Richard Aldington Quotes
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
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And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
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Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.
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Any actor who says he does not like so many people shouting his name would be lying.
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I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.
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'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.
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If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?
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I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I'm joking or not.
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I sort of have to have a positive outlook.
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The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
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If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.
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So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.
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We greatly value the contributions of all of our employees.
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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
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I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
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I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.
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At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.
