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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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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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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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
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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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I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.
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I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.
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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
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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.
