David Axelrod Quotes
I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence-to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
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The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.
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I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, 'Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.' That kind of helps.
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I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
