Paul Tsongas Quotes

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

Paul Tsongas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 14, 1941 - January 18, 1997

Topics

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I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

John Hurt

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You can see areas where maybe you got a bit lazy, perhaps, or you see when you were really on form. I think an actor is very like a sportsman in that respect. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

John Hurt

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There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Max Beckmann

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Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

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But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

Toni Braxton

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I think the place we love the most is the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. It's in the 19th arrondissement. It's where I would go jogging and my wife, Rachel, and I would go for walks. It's appreciated by Parisians but it's not really known to tourists.

Rosecrans Baldwin

LoveWifeThinkPlaceGoWhere

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.

Michael Koryta

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Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

Chris Evans

LifePerspectivePeopleMeThink

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Christopher Hitchens

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What's more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

Cobie Smulders

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Religion was my entire life. And then, when I came out, religion completely turned their back on me. And I've never really gotten over that.

Bobby Berk

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The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Antonio Gramsci

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