Buster Keaton Quotes
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.
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You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
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I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
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The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
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You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
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The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.
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I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor.
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The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.
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We used to get arrested every other week - that is, the old man would get arrested.
