Dennis Prager Quotes

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Wise

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Want
  • Start
  • Studying

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Writing
  • She

• I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Relationship
  • Judged

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Political
  • Service

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.

  

  John Branch
  • Game
  • Fighting

• If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• I do feel strongly that we have got to do a little brand-positioning work. Wouldn't it be great to have something that everybody could say: 'Yep, that's Chicago.'

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • Work
  • Great
  • Chicago

• There are four accounts of the gospel itself! The momentous events of the conception, birth, life, teaching, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth are too vast to be adequately viewed from one angle alone. Just as we need several points of view to "see" a person's face, so we need these varied emphases and angles to gain the full perspective of all God wants us to understand.

  

  Christopher J. H. Wright
  • God
  • Events
  • Accounts

• I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Great
  • Mind