Daniel Greenberg Quotes
You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
Quotes to Explore
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
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The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
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I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
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I usually don't really have breakfast.
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
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I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
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When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
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The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
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To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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The ball was no longer in his hands. It was on the ground, and he dove on it.
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You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
