Archibald MacLeish Quotes

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

Archibald MacLeish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

Jesse Ventura

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Never put the investor in the ultimate position of power.

Michael Seibel

PowerNeverPositionUltimatePut

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.

Michael Showalter

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I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs.

Louis Theroux

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It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

Lisa Kleypas

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As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.

Jose Rizal

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What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Christopher Reeve

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I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting for?' Motherhood has been the greatest gift of my life.

Connie Britton

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The challenge is making sure that every single moment is honest, no matter what. It's doing Eric Carter justice. Not trying to fill Jack Bauer's shoes. Not trying to step into Kiefer's legacy.

Corey Hawkins

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The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

Suzanne Fields

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All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.

Todd Phillips

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You can't work all your life.

Marion Cotillard

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