Cullen Hightower Quotes
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I owe everything to France.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.
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Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists.
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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
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The labeling of products of the Jewish state by the European Union brings back dark memories. Europe should be ashamed of itself. It took an immoral decision. Of the hundreds of territorial conflicts around the world, it chose to single out Israel and Israel alone, while it's fighting with its back against the wall against the wave of terror.
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'The Offending Words and Images, in their natural and ordinary meaning, mean and were understood to mean that I, as the Prime Minister of Singapore and Chairman of GIC, am guilty of criminal misappropriation of the monies paid by Singaporeans to the CPF.'
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If due to environment businesses flop then we don’t look at religion involved in it right? We worry about environment; similarly we have to look at the rural economy. So country’s problem is not Modi but a 'stagnated perverted mindset'. They want to take every issue to that one communalised corner.
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It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
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There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.
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Nor is it enough to refrain from personally performing an injustice, for in order to be good one must seek out and rectify injustices performed by others.
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I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.
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A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
