Leonard Baskin Quotes

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

Leonard Baskin

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Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

Jerry Spinelli

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There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.

Jesse Williams

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The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Jeremiah Wright

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You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.

John Eldredge

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If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

John Mulaney

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There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

Michael Douglas

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Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.

Shiri Appleby

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Each man in his way is a treasure.

Robert Falcon Scott

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Those who are outraged will vote.

Roger Stone

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We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'

Robert Teeter

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Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.

Louis D. Brandeis

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My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.

Joseph Parker

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