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James MacGregor Burns Quotes

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

James MacGregor Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1918 - July 15, 2014

Topics

Ignore Down Play Others Up Social

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

World Enough You Person Know Living

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

Heart World Brainy Hands Place Head

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Mountain Me Scene Fonda Henry Gave

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.

Good Truth Freedom I Am People You

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

Life Picture Find Too Much Play Way

It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.

Will Economy British Jobs Unskilled

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.

Way First Sing Songs Element Tried

Honestly, this will never happen because she's so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

Work Love Me Will Never She

By acknowledging, accepting, and embracing our dark side, we create natural steam vents within ourselves. By providing an opening, we eliminate the worry about an explosion because we are allowing the pressure to be released in a safe and appropriate way.

Pressure Worry Dark Create Dark Side

My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.

Mother She Anything Like Absolutely

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

Religion Colleagues Way Mean Need

He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.

Good Cute Baby Weird Stop Cry

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