Genghis Khan Quotes
The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
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That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.
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I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.
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'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.
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I was living in Florida working as a model and got my first acting job there in the movie 'Wild Things.' I thought it was sort of cool and decided to do some training.
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I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
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If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
