Allan Lichtman Quotes
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I'll say anything to live.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.
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Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.
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Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.
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'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
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Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
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Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.
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Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
