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Archibald MacLeish Quotes

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Archibald MacLeish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982

Topics

Freedom Man American Dream Mind Know

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

John Eldredge

Life Live Fog Story You Play

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

John Lewis

Good Truth People Uncomfortable You

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

Robert M. Gates

Best Person Always Who Believed

I'm sure we've all had that annoying experience when we desperately need a flashlight, we find one, and the batteries are out. Imagine how much money we would save and the amount of toxins leached into the soil, etc., reduced if we didn't use any batteries in flashlights!

Ann Makosinski

Money Experience Find Soil Need Out

I often forget that I'm a little person. It's the physical environment and society that remind me.

Sinead Burke

Me Society Environment Person Forget

I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.

Tony Scott

Morning Day Go First Over Shooting

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

Luke Evans

Work Hard Work Day Hard Being Just

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.

Johnny Ramone

Moment Red Perception Play Lights

My kitchen is limited at best. I have one drawer. But I make do with what I have; it's taught me to be super efficient in terms of how I clean and how I put things away.

Antoni Porowski

Best Me Kitchen Clean Things Away

On the scale of someone who's really laid-back about stuff and someone who worries a lot, I fall more towards the latter.

Anne Hathaway

Someone Fall More Who Stuff Scale

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Scott Pelley

Succeed Journalism Fail Based

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Thomas Hardy

Bad Worse Every