John Dos Passos Quotes
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
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There is always safety in valor.
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I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
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Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
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Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.
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The fight in Ireland has been one for the soul of a race – that Irish race which with seven centuries of defeat behind it still battled for the sanctity of its dwelling place.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
