Charles Hartshorne Quotes
We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
Quotes to Explore
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.
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People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.
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I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
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Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing.
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We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.
