Lewis Mumford Quotes
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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I just can't read music.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
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One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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Nostalgia can be extremely powerful in the right hands: think of the intense longing in the films Andrei Tarkovsky made after he left the U.S.S.R. They wring your soul.
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Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
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We have been in Victoria for 3 years now after moving here from Vancouver. Victoria is a great place to live and we plan on staying especially as the kids are now in school.
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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
