Curtis Sliwa Quotes
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
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I don't take vacations.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
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Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
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But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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Dogs don't make mistakes.
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If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.
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The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.
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I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.