Anthony Lewis Quotes
The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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I want to love life.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.
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I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
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Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
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The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.
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We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.
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Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.
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The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.
