Danny Lyon Quotes
I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
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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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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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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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I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.
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Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.
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A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the twenty-first century, space scientists are setting Darwin in a grander cosmic context - probing the origins of Earth, stars, atoms and the universe itself.
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We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.
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So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.
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I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.
