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.Lewis Mumford
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
Taron Egerton -
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day -
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.
Pat Paulsen -
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke -
'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.
B. B. King
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
Tadao Ando -
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.
Natalie Cole -
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.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
Wayne Huizenga -
I just can't read music.
Kate Smith -
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!
Larry Williams
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
Vikram Seth -
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.
Washington Irving -
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx -
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite -
I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
Wayne Rooney
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To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.
Christina Hendricks -
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
Charles Tupper -
Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
Ha-Joon Chang -
The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.
G. H. Hardy -
If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
Laura Miller -
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.
Lewis Mumford