David Cortright Quotes
The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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Teams go on runs. We have to be able to withstand a run and not get down on ourselves.
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Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.
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Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?
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I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.
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We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
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Christ has a cosmic body that extends throughout the universe.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.
