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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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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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've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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Freedom of conscience, the existence of an informed public opinion, a system of education of a pluralist nature, freedom of the press, and access to other sources of information, all these are in very short supply in the socialist countries.
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Great ideology creates great times.
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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.
