"It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first"

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Source : Reginald Rose (2006). “Twelve Angry Men”, p.19, Penguin

Reginald Rose

#Boys Quotes #Hands Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."”
“I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.”

Source : "Nikki Haley Pinata Takes Beating From Labor Leader" By Dave Jamieson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.
“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.”
“Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.”
“If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.”
“You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.”
“Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.”
“Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.”

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