Arthur Levitt Quotes
I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Art is when things appear rounded.
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Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is a 'me,' which is distinct from things, is a delusion.
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Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.
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I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about God, say nothing about right or wrong, good or bad. To admit this would force philosophers to confront the possibility that the physical sciences offer a grossly inadequate view of reality. And since philosophers very much wish to think of themselves as scientists, this would offer them an unattractive choice between changing their allegiances or accepting their irrelevance.
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I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
