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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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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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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I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.
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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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As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
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I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.
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The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.
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The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.
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We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
