To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD We barely speak French when we are together. We always want to improve on our English so we rather s... OUMAR SYLLA The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't ... 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ALBERT EINSTEIN I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN It is always better to be a bookworm rather than being a dung-beetle! CHANDRAKANT KALURAM MHATRE It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather... NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but v... TIM O'BRIEN We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one rule of intelli... CHARLES WILLIAMS I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.' GUILLAUME CANET And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. RANDALL JARRELL The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so... ANN OAKLEY Theoretically, I can imagine that someday we will regard or children not add creatures to manipulate... ALICE MILLER If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible t... ANITA BORG Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ... STEPHANIE KLEIN To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN We've decided to act as an industry rather than individual hospitals or hospital systems. MARK MORALES The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. ALBERT EINSTEIN The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule... ALBERT EINSTEIN Too many Americans are spurred to achieve, rather than to attach. THOMAS LEWIS I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON We are more likely to be -- as we did last year -- sellers of assets rather than buyers. LYNDON COLE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be unde... NEEL BURTON We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us. J. DABNEY DAY The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to lea... WARREN G. BENNIS We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been... 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Car'd not to be at all. JOHN MILTON I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL I have to live with the facts as they are, rather than as I wish they would be or think they might b... ED KEON Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather ... E. L. DOCTOROW For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing a... DAWN FRENCH You may have noticed that we are more frequently calling the area an innovation district rather than... ANDREW SORENSEN The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed ANTHONY BURGESS We're going to try and stay concentrated on the one or two big releases a company has a month, rathe... CRAIG JELIN We might do a date here or there if there are opportunities to get a special guest to sing. That's b... BILL SIDDONS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements a... ARISTOTLE rather than a prescription or a bottom line that students have to adhere to. JOSH KAPLAN We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be res... GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch... JULIA CAMERON We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than b... MAHMOUD ABBAS Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to ... L. LIONEL KENDRICK I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer. MARK LAWRENCE The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the contr... NORMAN COUSINS The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so... ANN OAKLEY We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream w... BILL CLINTON Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies ... AMIRI BARAKA There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are ofte... SHAFFI MATHER Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being you... SHANNON L. ALDER I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor. LORD BYRON
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LESLIE HARLOW It's new revenue streams, and everything we do with our content has to be for new revenue streams. T... LESLIE MOONVES To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing. LISA LESLIE Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old. LISA LESLIE As a role model for young girls and women, I just encourage them to continue their education and set... LISA LESLIE I love cheesecake and whipped cream. Those are my two downfalls. LISA LESLIE It's not a situation of panic, that's the last thing you want to do. You want to make sure that you ... LESLIE CRANE