Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Paul Newman is a sex symbol.

Maud Adams

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I really focus on making sure that we pass good policy. I don't mind throwing my elbows around to get it done.

Matt Rosendale

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I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

Sinbad

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I don't think I could do a superhero movie. I'm just not really that type of guy.

Tom Sturridge

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The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Rita Moreno

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Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

Rod Stewart

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So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

Rosalind Wiseman

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Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers.

Mary H.K. Choi

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As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

Michael Sheen

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There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

Louis Armstrong

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And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.

Lord Robertson

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I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Joseph Beuys

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