Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
Kenneth Lonergan
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
Zac Brown Band
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara Tuchman
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
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For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor’s mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.
Tanith Lee
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He believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don’t believe in it at all.
Isaac Asimov
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Not the individual man nor a single generation by its own power can erect the bridge that leads to God. Faith is the achievement of many generations, and effort accumulated over many centuries. … There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.
Flann O'Brien
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One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.
Eugen Kogon
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For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
Bob Iger
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Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.
Rachel Caine
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman
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You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
Kenneth Lonergan
