"Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered"

-- Robert A. Dahl

#Taking Things For Granted Quotes #Granted Quotes

“If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.”
“I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.”
“When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.”
“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”
“Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gradually fading into ineptitude under the searchlight; and I have no doubt that there will arise a new generation who will look with a wonder and amazement, deeper than now accompany Einstein, at our galaxy of thinkers, men of science, popular critics, authoritative professors and witty dramatists, who have been satisfied to waive their common sense in view of Einstein's absurdities.”
“With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.”
“Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.”
“A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.”

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