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The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.

My father - who was a master sergeant and the toughest man I've even known - next to him, Coach Lombardi was a piece of cake.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

Unselfishly loving other people and extending compassion to everyone is essential to live an honorable, happy, and self-fulfilling life. A person must fearlessly love in an uninhibited manner and express their love in an open manner without reservation or qualification.

There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

I remember when I was about 15 and still listened to Pet Shop Boys and Chas And Dave, some lad at school lent me a Blur tape, and it had on it a song called 'Bank Holiday.' I said, 'What's this? I liked that tape, but that one song is a bit fast'. He said, 'Yeah, it's punk. It depends what mood you're in.' And then something sort of clicked in me.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

You command my desire for the queen of cities to be mitigated: you alone are a Rome to me.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.