Nathan Deal Quotes
'We do not have a belief, in my way of looking at religion, that says we have to discriminate against anybody,' he said, noting that Jesus Christ reached out to the social outcasts of his time. 'If you were to apply those standards to the teaching of Jesus, I don’t think they fit.'
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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I played a lot of right field with Tampa.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend’s voice arises, and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?
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I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.
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'We do not have a belief, in my way of looking at religion, that says we have to discriminate against anybody,' he said, noting that Jesus Christ reached out to the social outcasts of his time. 'If you were to apply those standards to the teaching of Jesus, I don’t think they fit.'
