Quote by Wallace Shawn
In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thou

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that. – Wallace Shawn

Other quotes by Wallace Shawn

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didnt understand, and in a way still dont, because when I look in a mirror it doesnt seem funny to me. – Wallace Shawn

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funny
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Were in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality. – Wallace Shawn

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Hope
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freuds Interpretation of Dreams was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was! – Wallace Shawn

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Dreams
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History
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More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers. – Joe Murray, “History updates current events,” Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 1

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History

History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it offers an endless series of courts of appeal, and is ever ready to reopen closed cases. – William Stubbs

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History

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. – Condoleezza Rice

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History

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. – African Proverb

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History

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Everyone pushes a falling fence. – Chinese Proverb

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It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. – Stanley Milgram

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Responsibility

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men. – Bible

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Gossip

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. – Davy Crockett

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respect