Irving Kristol Quotes
If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
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Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
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Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'
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The perpetuation of gangster rap has really put a negative image on the city of Compton... So I look forward to addressing that image, changing it and making it more accurate.
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If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
