Charles Ludlam (Charles Braun Ludlam) Quotes
If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.
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The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.
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People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
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Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?
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I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.
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You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.
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The fact that Hillary Clinton is pushing for paid family leave and also for affordable childcare will make a huge difference for working women who aren't as lucky as I am to be able to hire a nanny when I work. And who aren't lucky enough to necessarily have their husbands be able to take off work. That will make a huge, huge difference.
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On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
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We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
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Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
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I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right?
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The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.
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And now indeed this substance with its precious humility becomes, through its indestructibility, the most faithful bearer of man's message. As far back as one goes in time, the works of humanity from prehistoric times have reached us not through stone which crumbles and wears away, or through metal which oxidizes and becomes like powder, but through slabs of pottery, the writing on which is as clear today as it was under the stiletto of the scribe who traced it.
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If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.
