Dennis Prager Quotes
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
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I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.
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One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
