Arnold Beichman Quotes
...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.
Quotes to Explore
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.
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My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.
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I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television, the mothers get younger and younger, and the children get older and older, and you start to wonder when these people had these children. Were they breeding when they were 12?
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This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
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In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.
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...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.
