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When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change ...
Senator John Kerry
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Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Marguerite De Valois
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Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.
Georges Bidault
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
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The media`s power is frail. Without the people`s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Corazon Aquino
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these
Emily Dickinson
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best ...
William Butler Yeats
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best ...
William Butler Yeats
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these thi...
T.S. Eliot
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater
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If I was drinking something [in my house], they said, `Oh, she got dumped, she`s so miserable she`s turning to drink`. Or if my mother and sister came over, they said, `She`s so miserable she needs her family to support her through this hard time.` [on he...
Maggie Cheung
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Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as `Claudia`! Twelve was a turning point as I moved to a mixed school and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.
Robert Pattinson
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She`s been in my life a long time and a certain day, instead of turning my head somewhere else, I finally felt that my happiness was with her. Since then, I feel more adult. I work better. Karine wants a lot; she wants to face every problem. She`s the ide...
Vincent Perez
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If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don`t think it`s easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself. [About turning down a part in The Horse Whisperer (1998) because he was required to change his accent]
Lucas Black
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The great thing about turning 30 in this business is that you get to perpetuate being young or old as long as we want.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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[on turning down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)] Yeah, well, I never understood it. I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don`t understand it.
Sean Connery
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On the advantages of being an actress who is months from turning 40: "They`ve lived longer, they`re more confident about their choices and they don`t have to be hip and cool anymore, which I think is a godsend - you make really bad choices when you are tr...
Jodie Foster
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[in 1962] All the old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn`t interest me too much any more.
Randolph Scott
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I think in my 40s, right around the time of The Turning Point (1977), that I began to address myself more to the future. See, I wasn`t afraid of getting old, because I never had the problems the other actresses my age had. I was never a great beauty. I wa...
Shirley MacLaine
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Looking at my horrible ugly bulk on a huge screen was the turning point in my life.
Lynn Redgrave
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I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don`t know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole. (regarding turning forty)
Teri Hatcher
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[New York Times interview, Oct. 16, 2005]: I regret turning down the lead role in Alice Doesn`t Live Here Anymore (1974) which Ellen Burstyn deservedly won an Oscar for. I said to myself: "Who is this Martin Scorsese person?".
Shirley MacLaine
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Wherever I go the real hard-core drug dealers come up to me and confide in me. I almost feel guilty turning around and saying: `Ello, mate. My name`s Idris and I`m from London.` I don`t want to break the illusion. - On why he uses his American accent when...
Idris Elba
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[on turning down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix (1999)] Well, "The Matrix" - I just didn`t get it. I couldn`t get past page 42. That world was just not interesting to me.
Russell Crowe
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It`s no different. It`s not like I ever cursed around my mother or anything. I never had a hard time turning it on and off. It`s like you enter another country - sometimes you`re in a cursing country and then you`re in a kid`s country.
Chris Rock
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[talking about a severe coughing attack she had when she was six weeks old, slowly turning blue and finally stopping breathing until her mother`s prayers and spanking brought her back to life] If I were to write a biography, it would start like this: I wa...
Audrey Hepburn
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In the past, I have felt slightly pigeon-holed with the success of roles like Hornblower, all ruffled shirts and wonderful costumes. I think Launcelot was the turning point because he`s more masculine, more dangerous, which goes hand in hand with me growi...
Ioan Gruffudd
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(on Hollywood in the 1980s) "We live in a snake pit here...I hate it but I just don`t allow myself to face the fact that I hold it in contempt because it keeps on turning out to be the only place to go."
Orson Welles
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Before getting Scrubs, I had always threatened myself I`d have to become a dental hygienist if I quit acting - to me, that would be the hardest job. I would tell myself, `Just stick it out for a little longer.` It definitely was a turning point. - about h...
Sarah Chalke
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On being typcast after Star Trek: "I`ve been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek character and I`ve been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex."
Marina Sirtis
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