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Henry Steele Commager Quotes

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: October 25, 1902 - 1998

Topics

Purpose Society End Censorship Kind

'House of Cards' was amazing to work on. I couldn't believe I landed there.

Work Amazing Believe House Cards

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

Melissa Etheridge

Smoke Go Natural Five Six Route

Sadness... reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values.

Father Trust Legacy Sadness Proud

I am a huge fan of Nirvana and always will be.

I Am Will Always Nirvana Fan Am

'Billionaire' is basically about, you know, like 'Brewster's Millions.' It's me talking about what would happen if I would somehow manage to become a billionaire. What would I do with the money? Don't get it wrong, I'm far from a billionaire. I think I just made it out the 'thousandaire' category.

Money Me Think Talking You Wrong

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

Police London Up Well England Grew

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Winter You Too Much Get Much Too

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Roger Bannister

Car Training School War Nobody Hill

My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!

Michael Patrick King

Me Mom Door You House Say

It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.

Goals People Reach Help Gym I Can

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Racism Slavery Discrimination Burden

I will be the first black James Bond.

Bond Black Will First Be The First

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