Clarence Darrow Quotes
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Quotes to Explore
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
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There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.
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And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, 'If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here.' In the air all directions lead everywhere.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
