Walter Millis Quotes
Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action.
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Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.
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When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.
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By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.
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All of our dreams can come true...
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It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.
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Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, �He who is content.
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There is a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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I decided to ask eight Vietnam combat veterans if they would be willing to take a standard pain test while they watched scenes from a number of movies. The first clip we showed was from Oliver Stone’s graphically violent Platoon (1986), and while it ran we measured how long the veterans could keep their right hands in a bucket of ice water. We then repeated this process with a peaceful (and long-forgotten) movie clip. Seven of the eight veterans kept their hands in the painfully cold water 30 percent longer during Platoon. We then calculated that the amount of analgesia produced by watching fifteen minutes of a combat movie was equivalent to that produced by being injected with eight milligrams of morphine, about the same dose a person would receive in an emergency room for crushing chest pain.
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Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
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Any two public institutions appealing to the same set of people are apt to appeal in the same terms.
