John Dos Passos Quotes
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.John Dos Passos
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom -
Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
Ibrahim Hooper -
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
Orison Swett Marden
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten -
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons -
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
Warren Spector
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
Eartha Kitt -
People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
Taylor Swift -
No hero is mortal till he dies.
W. H. Auden -
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie -
Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
Carine Roitfeld -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass
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I must admit that I don't really understand social networking models that well, and I haven't tried to because I have just not been enthused about this whole thing.
David Cheriton -
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.
Aung San Suu Kyi -
Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
Louis R. Chenevert -
If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o' clock, I say why not one o' clock?
John von Neumann -
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
John Dos Passos