Arturo Graf Quotes
Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.
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I'm a big believer that if you're happy and your employees are happy, your customers are going to be happy. If you're unhappy and your employees are unhappy, there's no way your customers are going to be happy.
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You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.
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It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
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People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.
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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible. . . . Personal values and national policies must both play a role.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Civilization is a terrible plant, which grows and blooms if its watered with tears and blood.
