Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
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I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.
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There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.
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Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
