Ernest Dimnet Quotes
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I'm not bothered about what people say behind my back. I don't need to know about it. I believe in living my life and doing my work. God will give you success. And even if He doesn't, there's a lesson to be learnt.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
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It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make it happen soon we need to speed the resolution of millions of troubled home loans. Six years have passed since the crisis began, yet instead of accelerating, foreclosures have slowed.
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The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.
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We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.
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We started out a long time ago, and we've managed to just keep writing current songs and have No. 1 current records.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
