John Webster Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.
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I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.
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I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.
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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
