"My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle."

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“A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture.”
“A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.”
“The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.”
“Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away.”
“I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.”
“And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.”
“We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.”
“If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.”

Source : Speech at The Gruber Foundation, recieving "Women's Rights Prize", 2009.

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