Ray Stannard Baker Quotes
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.
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My father is my inspiration.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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I really don't think there's a world in which you can do anything with anybody. Because we're in the world of the White House, I think there are certain things you can do, and larger things that can happen, but I don't think you can do anything.
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A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
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We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
