Walter Lippmann Quotes
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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People have the right to say whatever they want.
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I usually mug up my Telugu dialogues much before going to the sets every day.
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[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
