Marilynne Robinson Quotes

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

Marilynne Robinson

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Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

Jeff Berwick

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Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Sterling K. Brown

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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

Martin Van Buren

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When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles.

Ludivine Sagnier

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I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.

Jason Statham

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I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

Javier Bardem

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To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Chris Evert

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Everything has happened so fast for me that I sometimes can't take it all in. I'm a huge 'Friends' fan, and meeting Matthew Perry in L.A., where he was as keen to talk to me about 'Extras' as I was to him about 'Friends,' was amazing.

Ashley Jensen

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I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it's the most important thing I can possibly do, to stay involved in the community as a part of the community, not ahead of the community. I'm very much the same level of them in it.

Tyler Oakley

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I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

Richard Burton

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I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Marilyn Hacker

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In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

Martin McGuinness

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