Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.
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Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look back with nostalgia or yearn for what I've lost. Because it was never all that.
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Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.
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A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
