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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I try to do my best.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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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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Since I began writing my new 'Bad Company' story, anyone who's connected with '2000 AD' has probably heard the sad news of the death of Brett Ewins, penciller and vital component of the original 'Bad Company' team.
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Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20
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For two and a half years, I rigorously trained seven to eight hours a day in two disciplines of dance but moved on to the most versatile medium called cinema which encompassed every form of art.
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There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations….What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
