Walter Lippmann Quotes

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

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• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Money
  • Funny

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Life
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• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Children
  • Today
  • House

• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Half
  • Well
  • Ended

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • You
  • Stop
  • Working

• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Technology
  • Process
  • Weapons

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Frame

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
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• For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

  

  Kate Micucci
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  • Wrote

• Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Great
  • Something
  • Lot

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Running has been almost my savior.

  

  Matthew Morrison
  • Running

• There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

  

  James Marsh
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Race