Caroline Leavitt Quotes
I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
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It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
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I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.
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Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.
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His the author's renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.
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Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd.
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It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
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Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.
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I am the most competitive person you will ever meet.
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I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were not religious. My grandfather was Polish. He came to Ireland in the '30s.
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We’ve always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we’ll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don’t look to go round it. We just bust straight through.
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I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.
