Eric Sevareid Quotes
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
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In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
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Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.
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This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at rest shows that there must be something theoretically wrong with Copernicanism, or the intuition that time is moving shows that there is something theoretically wrong with the block universe 'B series' view of change.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
