Chris Shays Quotes
I have been pushed to anger by the pervasive moral and ethical minimalism of this White House
Quotes to Explore
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.
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A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.
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True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
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I have been pushed to anger by the pervasive moral and ethical minimalism of this White House
