Harold Rosenberg Quotes
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
Quotes to Explore
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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No one person is an island.
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The Millennial Generation is being crushed by soaring college costs and student loan debt, and as lawmakers, we must find solutions to address affordability and flexibility in higher education.
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I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.
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We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'
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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
