Walter Lippmann Quotes

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Walter Lippmann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974

Topics

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The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.

Jill Lepore

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You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

Jermain Defoe

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I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.

Merce Cunningham

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I was in Hyderabad shooting for a Telugu film with Mahesh Babu when Aamir called, saying he wanted me to play the widow Jwala in 'Mangal Pandey.'

Amisha Patel

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Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.

Summer Sanders

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Hurricane Irene's advance coverage was heavy on worst-case scenarios. Thank goodness they didn't pan out.

Steve Rushin

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Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.

Michael Spiller

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Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

Joseph Hume

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You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

Don Rickles

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Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Debby Boone

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It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.

Deanna Raybourn

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