Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
Quotes to Explore
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To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
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California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?
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For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.
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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
