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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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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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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For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we can do that mostly by using money that every expert agrees is being wasted and is currently in the existing health care system.
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British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.
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The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.
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Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.
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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...'
