Patrick Marber Quotes
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.Patrick Marber
Quotes to Explore
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby -
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens -
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
I am a just man.
Fidel Castro -
Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
Carlene Carter -
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
Sam Smith -
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
Ian Thorpe -
We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann
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I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.
Lisa Lampanelli -
What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
Eddie Redmayne -
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
A. N. Wilson -
It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.
Peter Hain -
As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.
Nadia Bolz-Weber -
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
Patrick Marber