Jon Lee Anderson Quotes
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
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Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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No Such Thing as Bad Results.
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Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
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Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the existence of everyone; entire populations are mobilized for the purpose of wholesale slaughter in the name of life necessity: massacres have become vital.
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We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
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To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.
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That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
