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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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you.
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
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Inspiration comes from a clear mind. Right straight through. We have nothing to do with it.
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The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
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The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
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We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
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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.
