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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I don't feel closeted.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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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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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. I could go on for hours. I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.
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I have a couple ideas that I'm banging on for a film. It's strange, you make a movie and, all of a sudden, your agents are calling you and saying, "Hey, I know these guys with some money who are looking to finance something." You're like, "Oh, god, now I've gotta come up with something really amazing."
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.
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You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.
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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.
