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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to remember, when someone hurts you, that you are so much more than what they took from you.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that we see.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020