"I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal."

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Source : "The view from Hastings". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

Max Hastings

#Aggressive Quotes

“My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.”
“I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.”

Source : "Star Wars Rebels: Sam Witwer on Maul's Fateful Encounter With Obi-Wan". Interview with Eric Goldman, in.ign.com. March 22, 2017.
“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
“I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.”
“We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.”
“Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.”
“I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.”
“More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.”

Source : "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, USA Today, January 31, 2009.

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