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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When there's just too much confusion. You simply don't understand what to do.
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We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.
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If we want to try again, then try again. The point is we have free will to act and accomplish along with the peace of knowing whatever happens is what needs to happen in order for nature to fulfill its destiny, which we are part of.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
