Walter Lippmann Quotes
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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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.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.
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Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
