Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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It's those damn critics again.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.
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We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
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I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.
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Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
