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.Dennis Prager
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison -
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.
Imogen Heap -
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris -
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.
Ice T
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
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.
Barbara Kruger -
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd -
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.
Taylor Swift -
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana -
If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
Garth Brooks
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
Olivia Colman -
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
Adam Peaty -
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner -
Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
Rachel Kushner -
How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
Ferdinand Marcos -
Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
A. N. Wilson
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead -
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
Laura Linney -
The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
Ernest Hemingway -
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.
Pablo Picasso -
One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
Coco Chanel -
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.
Dennis Prager