Harlan Stone Quotes
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
