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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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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Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.
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Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
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Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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We used to get arrested every other week - that is, the old man would get arrested.
