Amy Waldman Quotes

While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

Amy Waldman

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People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

Jessica Hecht

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Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

Jerry Lewis

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.

John Foster Dulles

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In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.

John McCain

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We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

John Wozniak

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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

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Since the start of the Abe administration, we resumed peace treaty negotiations with Russia, which had lapsed during the three years of the Democratic Party of Japan administration.

Shinzo Abe

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The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

Tony Campolo

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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Jay-Z

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If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

Alia Shawkat

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