Arthur Miller Quotes
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
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Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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If war is the continuation of politics by other means, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means.
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My friends are gone and My hair is grey. I ache in the places where I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent everyday In the Tower Of Song.
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Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.
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I have grown up in the bright light of America.
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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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Isn't that - isn't that remarkable? Biff - he likes me!
