Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.
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There should be a lot of bands like the Go-Go's out there, but there aren't.
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Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
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The Jewish people can do a lot of good if we stay united and strong - Israel and the Diaspora working together. If we don't, I always worry about the continuation of the Jewish people in Israel and abroad.
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Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
