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 enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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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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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.
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“Glitter family is my long-time favourite term for this: the people who those of us pushed to society’s margins (and beyond) make our cohort. Glitter is known to be shiny and unruly, easy to get and hard to be rid of. I love the drag connotations and the femme visibility of it, as well as its unmistakably queer sensibility—look only as far as glitter-bombing for proof that nothing is as thoroughly and satisfyingly queer as glitter.”
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.
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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.
