Bertrand Russell Quotes
If, when a man writes a poem or commits a murder, the bodily movements involved in his act result solely from physical causes, it would seem absurd to put up a statue to him in the one case and to hang him in the other.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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History's a resource.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I didn't start playing drums until I was 12, for school band; they didn't have any saxophones left. My step-pops had a kit at the house, and I had never done anything that I understood so quick. It was so natural. It was the most fun and consistent thing in my life.
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I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
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I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.
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I try to avoid describing one interpretation of my books. Of course I have an opinion. I have things I want to say, but I don't ever want to limit anybody, to have them say, 'Oh, he said this, so that's what it's about.' I'm happy people bring their own stuff to it.
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I've learned that music is such a healer.
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If, when a man writes a poem or commits a murder, the bodily movements involved in his act result solely from physical causes, it would seem absurd to put up a statue to him in the one case and to hang him in the other.
