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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Faith
  • Religious
  • Moral

• Tom Brokaw was never young.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Never
  • Young
  • Tom

• Anna Wintour has guided me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Guided
  • Anna

• So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Directors
  • Europe

• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Imperfection

• I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Mind

• My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Man
  • Simple

• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

  Yelawolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Long
  • Love
  • Fun

• The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Spring
  • Roots
  • Satisfied

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Content

• I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Language
  • Poet
  • Poems

• Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Small
  • Understanding
  • Emotional

• I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • Small
  • Born

• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Own
  • Comfortable

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Pretty
  • Sometimes
  • Story

• I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards... he hardly said two words to me all day.

  

  Jane Badler
  • Time
  • She
  • Hope

• I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Peace
  • Sunday

• As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

  

  Kurt Huber
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Destiny

• What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Way
  • Control
  • Wonder

• What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.

  

  Nizar Qabbani
  • Words
  • Feel
  • Poems