Lincoln Steffens Quotes
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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I do sell fun.
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I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
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Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
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I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.
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cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.
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If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
