Andrew Dickson White Quotes
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
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At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.
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I believe that a politician needs to be with people.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.
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Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.
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I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
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Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.
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A daily creative project is like a marathon. It's a ridiculously daunting task, but making an original creation every day gives you an incredible sense of accomplishment. It also forces you to push beyond your mental and physical barriers (especially the ones you've erected for yourself). You'll be amazed at what you produce and what you learn about yourself in the process.
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
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I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
