Peggy Noonan Quotes
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
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Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.
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I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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Sickness, the serpent, is coming to bite you,Death, the old dark man, is coming to carry you off,Rest uneasy, you stinking carrion, on your gold beds.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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What a fucking great band we were.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.
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You want to know who owns America? A few at the top. And they've got one thing on their mind. No change. Look at Obama, all that hope and promise. No change. He went to Wall Street, had a fundraiser—$35,800 a ticket—and you know who the host was? Goldman friggin' Sachs.
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I mean, is it journalism? Is it just opinion? Are we putting facts out there? Are we trying to uncover stories? And so, the issue comes up, what is the liability?
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TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
