Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
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I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.
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The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper
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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very open minded. It's the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.
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'Last Man On Earth' is just one of the most original projects I've ever been involved with.
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When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.
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I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.
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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.
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I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.
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If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.
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Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.
