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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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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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Democrats hate Democrats most of all.
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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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Everyone now, they look back and they're like, 'What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?' And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please...
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The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people-almost half of all humanity-to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.
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There's milk-and-cookies Grandma, and there's Colt 45 and Atlantic City Grandma. She was the latter.
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If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.
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Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.
