Candice Bergen Quotes
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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Art class was my thing, but not any other class.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
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If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
