John Dos Passos Quotes

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

John Dos Passos

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• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Anger

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Society
  • Political
  • Humanity

• My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Wish
  • Books

• For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Character
  • True
  • Change

• I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Different
  • Real
  • Feeling

• People don't usually compliment your character.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Character
  • Your

• The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Energy
  • Year
  • Oil

• I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rest

• Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

  

  Vanity
  • Up
  • Good
  • Day

• Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Together
  • Want

• Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • First
  • Something

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Person
  • Start

• I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • Work
  • Voice
  • Internally

• True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • True
  • Giving

• Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• Many, many citizens have also expressed the same wish. It only reflects their love and affection for me and the aspiration of the people. I am really overwhelmed by this support. This being their wish, I respect it. I want to thank them for the trust they have in me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Respect
  • Support

• People know, lyrically, I go in, and you should never take me lightly on any record.

  

  Justin Scott
  • People

• Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Mind

• Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

  

  John Dos Passos