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The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action. ↗

— Howard Berman

#cheap #focus #must #should #talk

Iran has a dismal record on human rights. ↗

— Howard Berman

#human #human rights #iran #record #rights

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. ↗

— Howard Berman

#israeli-palestinian #say #should #sides #take

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#art #beauty #carry #does #enamoured

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#believe #came #comedians #i #i believe

As she bends for a Kleenex in the dark, I am thinking of other girls: the girl I loved who fell in love with a lion--she lost her head over it--we just necked a lot; of the girl who fell in love with the tightrope, got addicted to getting high wired and nothing else was enough; all the beautiful, damaged women who have come through my life and I wonder what would have happened if I'd met them sooner, what they were like before they were so badly wounded. All this time I thought I'd been kissing, but maybe I'm always doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, kissing dead girls in hopes that the heart will start again. Where there's breath, I've heard, there's hope. ↗

— Daphne Gottlieb

#poetry #women #beauty

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy. ↗

— Howard Berman

#act #ago #almost #been #breadth

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#me #note #she #sick #somebody

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#chicago #club #first #job #kelly

My whole act is confession. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#confession #whole