Colette Dowling Quotes
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.
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I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
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It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.
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It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.
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Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.
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Time is our enemy here. This small amount of time that we have here this week is the start of putting this team together. These guys have to find a way to come together and it starts here.
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I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
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Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
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A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.
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Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs
