Walter Lippmann Quotes
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Quotes to Explore
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
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There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.
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Love will not just heal your life or mine. Love will heal the world.
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Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
