"In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little."

-- Robert J. Samuelson

#Lines Quotes #Littles Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!”
“I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are like "well, I going to make a song today, and I think it will be a pop song." Some people are great at it and it's beautiful. If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.”
“Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.”

Source : "Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press". Speech in the House of Representatives, November 07, 1997.
“As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.”
“Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.”
“If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.”
“By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.”
“My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.”

Source : Yaacov Agam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1980). “Homage to Yaacov Agam: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, 1980”, Book Sales

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