James Bryant Conant Quotes
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.
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I think the truth is black-and-white.
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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'
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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
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Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.
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No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.
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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
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When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.
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The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.
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The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
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Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
