Max Eastman Quotes
Hegelism is like a mental disease-you cannot know what it is until you get it, and then you can't know because you've got it.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.
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I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
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A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.
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I got a record with Frank Ocean.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.
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Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. 'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.' Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art: it's not for everyone.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.
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Works of genius are the first things in this world.
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You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
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Hegelism is like a mental disease-you cannot know what it is until you get it, and then you can't know because you've got it.
