Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
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He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
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At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.
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A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
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When you talk to a young teenage girl, they're just full of self-loathing. The reason they feel self-loathing is they don't feel normal. It is a world that has not been built for them. It's been built for men, and that's why they feel bad.
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It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.
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My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.
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Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together.
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They could have dealt with it, probably, without raising the ire of some of the people in the environmental movement if all they'd done was to say that the section is titled 'Toxics and other substances of concern.'
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
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If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
