Leo Strauss Quotes
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Home is where one starts from.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
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I actually envy actors who have a persona: 'This is the way I am. This is the part I play.' And do it over and over and over. To me, that's a lot easier than trying to reinvent yourself every six months.
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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It's just making sure that everyone is treated equally. Is that so progressive? I don't think it's progressive, I think it's human. And not just gay people - women's rights, immigrants, people of different ethnic backgrounds.
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Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
