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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.

Talcott Parsons

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• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Desire

• History is not hatred.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Hatred

• When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • You
  • Mean
  • Practice

• I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Want
  • Name

• We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Energy
  • Financial
  • Nation

• I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Hip Hop

• 'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • City
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Language

• I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • Want
  • Know

• Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • World
  • Small
  • Movies

• 'I don't want to! Why should I?' 'Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don't.' 'So what? I don't care about other people.' 'You should.' 'But why?' 'Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don't.'

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Why

• I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.

  

  Ty Cobb
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Different

• A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Blow

• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

  

  Francis Bacon

• When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • People

• I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

  

  Boyle Roche

• There are many people of color who are very talented.

  

  James D. Watson
  • People
  • Color

• You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Die

• I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.

  

  Eric Fischl
  • Time
  • Art
  • Hope

• It doesn't matter if you're photographing a porter in a market in Marrakech or you're photographing the king of Morroco. You have the same sympathetic approach to everybody. You be nice to everybody, basically.

  

  Albert Watson
  • Same
  • Approach
  • Photographing

• The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • World
  • Reality
  • Environment

• My dad's a musician, and he taught me how to play when I was three, I think, so I've been playing ever since. It's something I've always done. And when you're really young, and you play music for people, people get really excited, so you get this inner sense that you are good at it, even though I've always been really not good at it.

  

  Bob Schneider
  • Good
  • Music
  • Playing

• I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics. Sometimes, the song is there and I have to make the melody fit. What I've learned so far about songwriting is that I can't force a song. If I try to do that, it's hollow, and people know a hollow song when they hear it. It's the song they stop listening to and forget about. I'd prefer not to write those kinds of songs.

  

  Kasey Anderson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.

  

  Talcott Parsons