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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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
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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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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.
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That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
