Audrey Hepburn Quotes
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What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
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On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. "A Time to Break Silence," at Riverside Church.
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I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
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When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.
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We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.
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So many people think you have to be rich and famous to really create an impact, and it's just not true. Especially when it comes to environmentalism.
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Statistics are the heart of democracy.
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As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.
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Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
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From my point of view, when I was thinking about the prospect of [Michael Douglas] in this part, I wondered if he would go all the way with it. The reason I was concerned is that, oftentimes, actors - especially movie stars - when they're playing a character who might be perceived as unattractive or eccentric, will wink at the audience while they're doing it.
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
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Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
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I am happy. I have won many awards, but it is the national award that I was waiting for. This means everything to me.
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The addition of vinaigrette to freshly roasted vegetables gives them a freshness and juiciness they don't normally have; the acidity brings out new shades of flavour, too.
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I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.
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Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
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Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.
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The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
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Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.
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There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
