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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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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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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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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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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Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.
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Theatre, for me, is about providing to the audience a new and exciting experience.
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It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
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It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'
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I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
