Warren Farrell Quotes
A father’s traditional role prepared him to love his family by being away from the love of his family.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'
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People love to talk but hate to listen.
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When a hospital isn't under as much pressure, you start to see things slowing down, and it might take five, six, seven days to get the person discharged, and that's the length of stay, so it's all these different factors come into play all the time.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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A father’s traditional role prepared him to love his family by being away from the love of his family.
