Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
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I grew up as a country boy.
Ian Somerhalder -
There are no rebels in the cinema business.
Beatrice Dalle -
I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
Felix Dennis -
A novel is not a rant.
Rachel Kushner -
If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
Gary Johnson -
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
Nancy Allen
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye -
Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
Rachel True -
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday -
The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
Cara Delevingne -
Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
Danica McKellar -
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Rachel Nichols
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
Larry Norman -
Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
Adam Carolla -
We are here to make another world.
W. Edwards Deming -
Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
P. J. O'Rourke -
And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
Imran Khan -
reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
Harper Lee
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I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.
Eliot Engel -
Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.
Georg Solti -
I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'
Mario Cuomo -
The question is just as important as the answer.
Charlie Rose -
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
Daniel J. Boorstin