Echo Bodine Quotes
I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.
Quotes to Explore
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.
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We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
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I know a lot about Jewish comedians.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish the benevolence of the heart and set bounds to philanthropy.
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Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.
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The Queen is above it all
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Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.
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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
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I want to help put some of the pieces together for people. I want to empower people so they don't have to keep going to others outside of themselves for guidance.
