J. G. Holland Quotes
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
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Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.
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I love talking about movies that mean something to me.
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Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
