Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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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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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.
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The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.
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Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
