Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
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Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.
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Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
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When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.
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I think it's really a sign of great American strength that we do invest the money we do in technology, in these hard projects, in NASA.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
