Harrison Salisbury Quotes
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.
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If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.
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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?
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I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.
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I can't think of many bands that can do that for five years without egos blowing up, but it's still working. We went about a year without seeing them (while touring with Cheap Trick), and we really missed them.
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I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
