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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The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.
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No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
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Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.
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I used to say that you'll have 10 IP address on your body... and it looks like that's going to happen through medical monitoring.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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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.
