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Will Durant Quotes

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981

Topics

Political Acting Divided Against

If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.

Feel I Can Too Much Write Stage Out

I'm a passionate monarchist.

Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there's time left over. But it's impossible to live a rich and full life without doing things that give you joy. Forget about productivity once in a while and give yourself permission to goof off.

Life Work Live Time Yourself Joy

I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.

Beauty Women Day Me Hair World

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

Success Marriage Gay Civil Rights

I've tended to look at my albums as research and development. I was just trying to get someplace new on each one.

Research Trying Look New Development

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

Martin Scorsese

New York New Now Nothing Well Still

We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.

Eyes Green Energy New Embrace Fact

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

Myself Thought Nice Band Hang

I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.

Mother Me Think Friends Partnership

I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.

Brandon Stanton

Purpose People World View Want

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

William J. H. Boetcker

Today Tomorrow Price Difficulties

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