Lauren Bacall Quotes
BACALL: 'I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it. Even though...'
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. That's how my band made it. We swam through a lot of shit together, we swallowed a lot of pride, but we managed to do what we needed to do.
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I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.
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I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.
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Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.
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I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.
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BACALL: 'I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it. Even though...'
