"That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary."

-- Sarah Vowell

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“God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.”
“I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think that you have to have a really specific type of personality to be able to both direct and act, because it requires enormous shifts in perspective. I mean, when you're directing, you're looking at the world through a wide-angle lens, and you're seeing all of it. You know exactly what's happening in every corner of it. You know what people are going to say. You know what they're going to do. You're controlling everything.”
“How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?”
“Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.”

Source : Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.447, Paradise Publishing
“The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.”
“Do I look like Iâ€™ve been crying?â€™ I say. â€˜Hmm.â€™ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like heâ€™s inspecting my face. A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. â€˜No, Tris,â€™ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, â€˜You look tough as nails.”

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