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"I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity."
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"This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?"
"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
"The problem isn't that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!"
"To cultivate bravery and courage, ground yourself in your character values:Building a solid foundation of integrity and character will fortify your confidence to face down fears and take bold action."
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
"He, who fails to acknowledge and appreciate the real courage of our fathers, fails to appreciate the real lessons that the courage of our fathers teaches us today! The courage and the wisdom that propelled our fathers to move unrelentingly in their days must be nothing to us, but, a real reason for us to be more than courageous enough to do the undone distinctively in our days."
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"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."
"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."
"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"
"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest."
"The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end."
"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists."
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