Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
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You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.
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This is a full-contact sport. It's the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You've got to use your technique.
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Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
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Those five members of the Supreme Court found a nonsensical distinction; that doesn't mean that Florida state legislators or state supreme court judges are required to play the semantic games that Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia did to reach the result they desired.
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Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
