Eleonora Duse Quotes
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.
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I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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'In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, 'If I had to put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper.'
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When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
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The War Between the States was about independence, about self-determination, about the right of a people to break free of a government to which they could no longer give allegiance... How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?
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I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.
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Clearly, President Bush lied. Now if he is an unconscious liar, and doesn't realize when he's lying, then we're really in trouble.
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Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.
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A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.
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I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
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When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
