Bill Moyers Quotes

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Bill Moyers

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Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

John Mica

SometimesTryFictionReadManyToo

I'm obviously more known for being on television, and that's where most people see me.

Simon Helberg

PeopleMeTelevisionMoreSeeWhere

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Robert Frank

I AmSayWantAlwaysSentimentalAm

I'm a kid from Boston.

Rob Mariano

BostonKid

I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.

Martin O'Malley

MistakeThinkSaidGlassPresident

I absolutely love genre movies. When I was a kid, I was really impacted by genre films and cult classics.

Lucas Till

LoveMoviesKidCultClassicsGenre

'Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day. I saw a lot of theater while I was there.

Lucy Fry

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I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

Jon Crosby

TrustHappyBe HappyBeeWayAlways

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Diogenes

WisePersonBecauseLeadersTakes

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

Deepak Chopra

LiveWisdomHealthBetterMature

During all of my writing career - this includes when I was writing plays and my other screenplays - I don't recall ever writing a negative character, which does not mean that my characters aren't flawed or do not make mistakes. In actual fact, they all are quite flawed.

Asghar Farhadi

CharacterMistakesWritingNegative

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

Susie Orbach

PerspectiveNegativeViewPolitical

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