Hugh Mackay Quotes

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

Hugh Mackay

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MediaViolenceEasyRadioBooks

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Max Roach

PeopleMePotentialGotOffDealing

I feel like I don't have a lot of time left.

Maurice Sendak

TimeFeelLeftI Feel LikeLikeLot

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Max Beerbohm

ManPeopleSayEffectVainMeans

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Matt Damon

LifeMyselfPeopleMeEnoughWorth

I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays and the music - it's done; the material is there. But we talk about it because it's part of the game. I'm comfortable with it.

Jean-Marc Vallee

MusicArtGameThinkTalkingDone

This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.

Steve Bannon

SunshineFightPeopleFightingYou

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Sun Tzu

CareYouEnemyOutServeAgainst

I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.

Stewart Butterfield

MeInternetDataEarlyOpenHippie

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

Trisha Goddard

LondonDrinkSameHolesWatering

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

Mary Gordon

GoodHabitMindBadMoralFiction

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

Joyce Meyer

LoveProudPrideWalkingYouSin

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Dee Dee Myers

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