Lionel Trilling Quotes
Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.
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Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.
