David Halberstam Quotes
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam
Quotes to Explore
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
Tananarive Due
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
Rakul Preet Singh
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis
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In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
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I'm not trying to say,That I'm smelling of roses, But when will we tire,Of putting shit up our noses.
Lily Allen
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New times demand new measures and new men;The world advances, and in time outgrowsThe laws which in our father's times were best;And doubtless, after us, some purer schemeWill be shaped out by wiser men than we,Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
James Russell Lowell
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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam
