Denis Donoghue Quotes
Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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Wearers of rings and chains!Pray do not take the pains To set me right.In vain my faults ye quote;I write as others wrote On Sunium’s hight.
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I hope, said the third, that your wanderings in lonely places do not mean that you have any of the romantic virus still in your blood. His name was Mr. Humanist.
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The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.
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Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
