Bill Moyers Quotes
On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.Bill Moyers
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson -
The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
Frances Beinecke -
Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
Radha Mitchell -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
Sam Brownback
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
Walter O'Brien -
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong -
I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I take my work seriously.
Daniel Craig -
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor -
The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
Aaron Carter
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
Jack Canfield -
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
Dan Byrd -
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon -
I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.
Beck -
Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
Mahesh Babu
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Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
Andy Samberg -
I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
Earle Brown -
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
Buffalo Bill -
Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
Erica Jong -
On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
Bill Moyers