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Walter Duranty Quotes

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1884 - 1957

Topics

People Think Problem Wishes Minds

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

Work Moment Cool Think You Know

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Control Gun Gun Control Defend Were

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.

Things Behind Headlines Hit Scenes

Death should not be a taxable event.

Death Event Should Taxable

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.

Good Experience You Bad Moral Kind

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

Parenting Balance Think Find Done

Once you label me you negate me.

Soren Kierkegaard

Wisdom Me You Label Once

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

Steven Van Zandt

Learning Walk Better You Actor Just

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

Parents Me Generation House Bring

The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

Change Technology Simple Synergy Two

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

Thought Landscape Always English

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Art Growing Up World Growing Bigger

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