Bret Stephens Quotes
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
Bret Stephens
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The American dream is about freedom.
Nancy Pelosi
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy Pelosi
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
Kage Baker
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
Wendell Pierce
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Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.
Bruce Lee
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Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example.
Steve Garvey
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Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.
Chris Pine
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Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.
Lao Tzu
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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
Bret Stephens