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“I'm a big believer in human nature.”
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“I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?”
Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”
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“There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if you put my beliefs in one column and her positions in another column, I am almost convinced that a majority of the people in the Democratic Party would support my beliefs.”
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“Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a pretext. Those people that really violate human rights [the West] violate human rights from all perspectives. Typically on the subject of human rights regarding the nations from the south and Cuba they say, "They are not democratic societies, they do not respect human rights, and they do not respect freedom of speech".”
Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
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“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
Source : 1965 Beyond Culture, introduction.
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“Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?”
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“I was born to poor because of honest parents.”