Russell Crowe Quotes

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Russell Crowe

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CourageGriefPatriotismWarPeople

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

Jim Rogers

DebtWillBirthPayJapaneseWho

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Max Eastman

MindBelievingAnythingImagineAble

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger's brow, the muggy air stifles - one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

Michael Dirda

DarknessHotelSweatMeetHotAir

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my parents might respond to.

Tony Harrison

PoetryParentsPeopleWantBecome

I was definitely Theater-Band Geek/Straight-Up Boss Subgroup C. I was really into band and theater and super into music at the time. I loved performing arts, and that would definitely be my group.

RJ Cyler

MusicTimeBossLovedGroupBand

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Robert Toombs

GovernmentWaySingleInterestUse

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

Ron Chernow

SavingsSawShiftBanksMassive

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

Rupi Kaur

MomentSchoolWritingRememberWhere

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous.

Mary Quant

FlowerPowerEndPartyLovely1950s

I'm 5 feet 3, but I was 6 feet 4 when I married Ava.

Mickey Rooney

FeetMarried

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

Mike Birbiglia

PeopleMeEndUpGoingTwenty

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Diane Ackerman

NatureMoreMiracleOurselvesCrave

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