Frederick Lewis Allen Quotes
Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of 'Idol' because I was just singing on the show. I wasn't really being an advocate for anything.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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We could have a budget that brings Americans together.
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The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.
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A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
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Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.
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I'd love to work with Rachel McAdams, because she's a great actress.
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Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.
