Walter Cronkite Quotes
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
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I'd been going up for things, but I hadn't got anything, and then 'Anne Frank' came out, and there was a sudden flurry. I got a call saying they wanted to see me at the Globe, which was incredible because I'd been coming here since I was 12.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
