Lewis Tappan Quotes
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
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I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
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The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
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People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
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At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
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Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
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When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.
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O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
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Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and ... but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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I want romance; I want people to be happy in their relationships.
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No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.
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The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
