Lincoln Steffens Quotes
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
Quotes to Explore
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.
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Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
