August Spies Quotes
The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
Quotes to Explore
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
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Me.
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
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I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.
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When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
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I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.
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A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
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I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
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Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
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While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise you that I'm not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.
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What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
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Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
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The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.
