Anthony Lewis Quotes
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
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When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.
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The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
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There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
