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Joyce Appleby Quotes

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Joyce Appleby

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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.' Tarsem Singh
The more power man acquires, the more vulnerable he becomes. What he must fear most is the moment when, creation entirely fleeced, he will celebrate his triumph, that fatal apotheosis, the victory he will not survive. Emile M. Cioran
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction. Mary A. Ward
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. Dennis Prager
15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff. Anthony Michael Hall
Bernie Ecclestone quote: "What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome."
What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome. Bernie Ecclestone
As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little. James Wolfensohn
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Only poor men get hanged."
Only poor men get hanged. Gilbert K. Chesterton
It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it. Elizabeth Goudge
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. Andy Warhol
Joshua Leonard quote: "Actors are such an insecure breed."
Actors are such an insecure breed. Joshua Leonard
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and..."
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. Jackson Browne
Rosanne Cash quote: "Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all..."
Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong. Rosanne Cash
I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want. Chris Isaak