Karl Hess Quotes
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.
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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
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The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
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I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.
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We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.
