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“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
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“I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.”
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“My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as wee one.”
Source : "Natascha McElhone: my family values" by Victoria Lambert, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.
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“It's a funny thing, I think people meet us and they assume that we know a lot more about politics than we actually do. People will really get into it. I'm like, I don't really know a lot about tariff reform or export trade reform. That's really not something I know about.”
Source : "Veep's Timothy Simons is aware he looks "like a 6-foot 5-inch dick"". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, tv.avclub.com. April 23, 2017.
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“Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.”
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“And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.”
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“You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.”
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“Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.”