Danny Lyon Quotes
I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
Quotes to Explore
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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I don't like possessions.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.
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I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
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I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
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I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.
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Writing is very cathartic for me.
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The wonderful thing about romance is that there are so many flavors of it!
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When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull.
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Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
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I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
