Joseph Lewis Quotes
Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.
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When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
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At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
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It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
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I never felt like I was anything special. I just feel like a very lucky guy.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.
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Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.
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Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
