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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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
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I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
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If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.
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People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.
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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.
