"For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture."

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Source : 1907 Memories of My Life.

Sarah Bernhardt

#Long Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.”

Source : Uwem Akpan (2009). “Say You're One of Them”, Back Bay Books
“The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.”
“I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor and the middle class. Now I wonder. It's crystal clear that just about everything President Barack Obama promised about his health plan was false, his deception deliberate. If Democrats really cared for the people harmed by the law, you'd think they'd admit their mistake, try to fix it. They haven't.”
“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”
“Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.”

Source : "Inside the Monster : Writings on the United States and American Imperialism" by José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall, (p. 27), 1975.
“I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.”
“The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.”
“Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.”

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