Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
And I just want to tell you this - we're in favor of a lot of things and we're against mighty few.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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You give the money where you want it.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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Apartheid cannot be reformed. It has to be eliminated.
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
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When I saw you smile I saw a dream come true
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap! I know that damned Douglass; he's just like any nigger, and he would sooner cut a white man's throat than not.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.
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I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.
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I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me... These are not, however, the days of miracles ... I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right.
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I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.
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And I just want to tell you this - we're in favor of a lot of things and we're against mighty few.
