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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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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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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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.
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My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
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There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
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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.
