Archibald MacLeish Quotes
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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I really enjoy the football season.
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My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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Life is beautiful but people are crazy.
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If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
