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 situation has gone from bad to worse.
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In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.
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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
