Adam Driver Quotes, Political Quotes, Acting Quotes

Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

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If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.

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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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Take it from me: Elections matter.

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There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

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It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

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