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I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.
Martin Sheen
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Martin Sheen
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: August 3
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Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez
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I don't think abortion is a good idea. I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.
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I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth. The leaders are the ones who make the decisions. The soldiers do not have the choice. I support the soldiers as human beings.
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No matter what is going on, everything is grace.
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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
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I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.
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While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.
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I was a celebrity. This is not what I do for a living - politics. I play politicians, as well as working class or clergy or whatever, and you mustn't be confused by what you're seeing on television because that's not who I am. So I always ended it.
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I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.
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I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.
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George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.
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I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.
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The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?
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Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
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Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.
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