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.
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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.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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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.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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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.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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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.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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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.
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I have a strong appreciation for oversize sweatshirts, loose mohair sweaters, and jeans that are frayed at the ankles.
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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
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The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.
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I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.
