"I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies."
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"Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin."
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"No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here."
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"The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this."
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"To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say."
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"Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny."
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"I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false."
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"Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: Is it good? Does it give pleasure?"
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"The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations."
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"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."
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"If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice."
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"There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth."
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"I still believe one of the most important choices is how we treat others. What good does it do you to build a huge muscular, impressive body if you are small and underdeveloped on the inside? I’ve always felt that success begins on the inside and reaching our true potential gets blocked when we are small-spirited."
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"Excellence does not begin in Washington."
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"An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer"
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"A letter does not blush."
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"Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible."
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"Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin."
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"Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected."
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"There is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove."
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