Lionel Trilling Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
Basil Rathbone -
I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
Abigail Washburn -
Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
Nancy Pelosi -
When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
Naftali Bennett -
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
Barbra Streisand -
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
Mahesh Babu -
People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
Nate Silver -
A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'
Paris Jackson -
I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
Rachel Kushner -
Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick -
This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
Marc Andreesen
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White -
The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
Ralph Nader -
Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
Edgar Wright -
I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
Dan Fogelberg -
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
Sam Weller -
Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.
Gary Johnson
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You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
Kit Williams -
During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
Jim Walton -
I've known Daryl Hannah for 20 years. She's kind of a friend of the family. Anyway, I've been hot for her ever since 'Blade Runner.'
David Carradine -
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare -
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
Craig Sager -
We have all in some degree become anarchistic.
Lionel Trilling