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views world
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear. William James
views criticism trying
If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing. Wesley Morris
views interpretation
Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.
views voice important
I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.
views viewpoints
Every viewpoint is a view from a point. Richard Rohr
views decision listening
In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision. Trevor Nunn
views point-of-view
Once you have a point of view all history will back you up. Van Wyck Brooks
views quotation-marks fundamentals
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside. Umberto Eco
views hands soul
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary. Robert Musil
political synthesis moral
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane. Rose Macaulay
political communism
What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism. William F. Buckley, Jr.
political hell chad
Where the hell is Chad? Richard M. Nixon
political resigning
I have impeached myself by resigning.
political president needs
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture. Richard Lamm
political movement political-movements
You can't create a political movement out of pabulum. Robert Reich
political
They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in. Will Rogers
political body politics
I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.
political optimist democrat
You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
language languages
Having two languages is better than having 500, Ronald Schmelzer
language prose processors
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
language duty english-language
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language. Robert E. Lee
language pedigree nations
Languages are the pedigree of nations. Samuel Johnson
language found accents
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. Vivien Leigh
language metaphorical humans
Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature. W. H. Auden
language seducing wounds
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. Roland Barthes
language difficult difficult-things
Language is a very difficult thing to put into words. Voltaire
language trouble poet
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.