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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Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.
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My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.
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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.
