Newton N. Minow Quotes
We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.
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When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
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I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him.
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I've always been a fan of the '80s and, particularly, hair metal.
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Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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Selma teaches us, as well, that action requires that we shed our cynicism. For when it comes to the pursuit of justice, we can afford neither complacency nor despair.
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I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.
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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
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We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
