Louis Susman Quotes
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
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Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.
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There is only one right in the world and that right is one's own strength.
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I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.
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Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.
