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• In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Discovery, Philadelphia, Atheism

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• I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, Gender Gap, People

  "Kathryn Bigelow: We Must End Gender Discrimination in Hollywood". time.com. May 12, 2015.

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• Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, People, Legacy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing.

  Elton John

  White, Suffering, Complaining

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, before there were VCRt, my parents had a movie projector, and we'd watch Frankenstein and Dracula. I just always though that stuff was cool - creepy comics and monsters and horrific stuff. Music lends itself to that whole theme.

  Chris Reifert

  Kids, Parent, Creepy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than terrorism. People like this - there's not hate in their hearts. They believe what they believe because of the book that they prescribe to. You can't argue with these people.

  Leslie Jordan

  Hate, Book, Believe

  "Candid Q & A with gay icon Leslie Jordan". Today Interview, www.today.com. July 16, 2008.

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• The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

  Kelly Reichardt

  Beautiful, Moments, Beautiful Moments

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet. One leads to ecological collapse. The other is a reversion, in many ways, to poverty.

  Ramez Naam

  Energy, Climate, Burning

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• If you've been to China, you know there are over 100 cities in China, and the pollution levels are just horrific - 60,000 people a year die in Chinese factories and facilities, because they don't have any safety regulations. It's a carnage; it's Dickensian.

  Peter Navarro

  People, Safety, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We have to shine a bright light on horrific moments in society if we're going to create a better world for our children.

  Julie Smolyansky

  Children, Shining, World

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• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  Felicity Jones

  Character, Shoes, Ideas

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• And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

  Donald Evans

  Thinking, Land, America

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• The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.

  Katie Davis

  Christian, Children, Numbers

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• We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Keys, Admitting, Facts

  Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

  Eli Roth

  Writing, People, Design

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at homelessness and the lack of housing, less than something that's institutionalized.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Sleep, People, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

  Wilbert Rideau

  People, Life Is, I've Learned

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, People, Sick

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• I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dad, Father, Fighting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I love art, my mother is a painter, I majored in art history at Wellesley, and as I was having my second child I was thinking, what am I going to do, I have to do something to keep myself sane, and I began to ask myself, what are the most horrific circumstances under which art can be created?

  Alyson Richman

  Mother, Art, Children

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• In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to consciously think about it, so rather than think, "Oh, I must think about my daughter dying," you just let that go and trust that you have all the emotions you need in there, and by losing yourself in the scene, that stuff kicks in without having to spend the day thinking about horrific things happening to your own child.

  Michael Sheen

  Daughter, Children, Memories

  Source: collider.com

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• There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.

  Robert Byrd

  Focus, Hussein, Als

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• Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

  Charles Krauthammer

  Exactly Is, Oddities, Effort

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• If the universalists are correct in saying that everyone is going to be in heaven regardless of what they believe, or the pluralists are correct that all religions lead to the same god, then the horrific death of Jesus Christ was completely unnecessary.

  Robert Jeffress

  Jesus, Believe, Heaven

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

  Kelly Reichardt

  New York, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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