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 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 still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I loved Vincent and he loved me in the abiding way most couples in good marriages love each other, that way in which every once in a while there is a longing for someone you haven't yet met. A longing that comes upon you while you are loading the dishwasher or weeding the garden or sitting in front of the television or turning out the light to go to sleep, and you don't even know what it is, this longing, and you think maybe you're in need of a vacation or maybe you are dying because the ache of it hurts so fucking much…That ache, it went away when I met Henry; it went away as if it had been a headache instead of located nowhere precisely. Its not that I wanted to fall in love with Henry, but I did just the same because you can't keep from falling in love any more than you can keep snow from falling from the sky in winter. Gravity is gravity.
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
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Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.
