Melvil Dewey Quotes
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
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Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.
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If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.
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I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.
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Misery sells newspapers.
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She was a very devout teacher. There was a fanaticism about her in terms of the quality of a performance she sought from her students, and about how they thought about the music they played.
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I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
