Will Durant Quotes
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I don't like possessions.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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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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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.
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Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
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Talking about painful events doesn’t necessarily establish community – often quite the contrary. Families and organizations may reject members who air the dirty laundry; friends and family can lost patience with people who get stuck in their grief or hurt. This is one reason why trauma victims often withdraw and why their stories become rote narratives, edited into a form least likely to provoke rejection.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
