There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.


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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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There is a large element of me in every role I do.
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No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to susta...
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As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grum...
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
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Truth is our element.
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The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
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If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.
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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
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There's no people like show people.
IRVING BERLIN
After you get what you want you don't want it.
IRVING BERLIN
I got lost but look what I found.
IRVING BERLIN
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
IRVING BERLIN
There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks I got the sun in the mornin' -...
IRVING BERLIN
Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN
The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN
Talent is only the starting point.
IRVING BERLIN
There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...
IRVING BERLIN
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a sta...
IRVING BERLIN
The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.
IRVING BERLIN
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,Let u...
IRVING BERLIN
Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
IRVING BERLIN
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,...
IRVING BERLIN
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
IRVING BERLIN
The world would not be in such a snarl,/ had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, / Just like the ones I used to know.
IRVING BERLIN
My uncle out in Texas Can't even write his name He signs his checks with Xs But they cash 'em just t...
IRVING BERLIN
The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN
Got no checkbooks, got no banks, Still I'd like to express my thanks; I've got the sun in the mornin...
IRVING BERLIN
A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day Just like the strain Of a haunting refr...
IRVING BERLIN
A pretty girl is like a melody / That haunts you day and night.
IRVING BERLIN
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not ...
ISAIAH BERLIN
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
ISAIAH BERLIN
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by othe...
ISAIAH BERLIN
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is pe...
ISAIAH BERLIN
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, wher...
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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being ove...
ISAIAH BERLIN
For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feelin...
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
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If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.
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The child is to the pedophile as the bottle is to the alcoholic. This is often being treated for a c...
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It?s really nice. We actually feel a connection to the farmers.
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To understand is to perceive patterns
ISAIAH BERLIN
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
ISAIAH BERLIN
The building site has been secured. But nothing is finalized.
BOB BERLIN
That?s why I can?t close. It?s people like that that make me want to go on.
BOB BERLIN
My choice place would have been to stay in East Hampton.
BOB BERLIN
That's the basis of the Constitution. The government is for the people, by the people. And once they...
LILLIAN BERLIN
To understand is to perceive patterns.
ISAIAH BERLIN
In December, we were at 18 percent. I know a large portion of that was due to ALBA.
CANDY BERLIN
It?s a very dynamic partnership. They just made it so easy for us to work with them. It?s hard for a...
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My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke...
BRIGID BERLIN
Sally wasn't crying about their dead mother or her cancer. She was crying because her husband, Alfon...
LUCIA BERLIN
I just want to see my son. I know he's OK, but I still want to see him myself. He's only two and a h...
DAVID BERLIN
The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.
BRIGID BERLIN
I turn the water all the way hot, turn my back to the water, and I take it. I close my eyes and I'm ...
ADAM BERLIN
If there was something else to do, then the bat houses had to wait.
FRED BERLIN
Who in their right mind would be sexually attracted to young children?
FRED BERLIN
You can't cure it anymore than you can cure alcoholism, but you can successfully treat it.
FRED BERLIN
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.
ISAIAH BERLIN
Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.
LUCIA BERLIN
Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sen...
ISAIAH BERLIN
My whole take is that it's important for Americans to have weapons, and down in Texas, people carry ...
LILLIAN BERLIN
People don't want to face the facts. It's upsetting, but I'm not going to change for it. I'm going t...
LILLIAN BERLIN
That's the basis of the Constitution. The government is for the people, by the people. And once they...
LILLIAN BERLIN
Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such...
ISAIAH BERLIN
I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while rem...
ISAIAH BERLIN
(Paul) is a perfectionist. She works so hard on hurdles and it really shows.
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(Paul) is a great person. She's a great athlete, a great competitor, a very good student. Everybody ...
JOHN BERLIN
To understand is to perceive patterns.
SIR ISAIAH BERLIN
Photographing a cake can be art.
IRVING PENN
I love the gym; I love basketball. I'm really passionate about it.
KYRIE IRVING
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...
WASHINGTON IRVING
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
WASHINGTON IRVING
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in tra...
WASHINGTON IRVING
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
WASHINGTON IRVING
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad dayligh...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
IRVING THALBERG
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
IRVING THALBERG
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest ...
IRVING THALBERG
Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
IRVING THALBERG
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
IRVING THALBERG
Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his...
IRVING STONE
The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development...
IRVING STONE
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the fa...
IRVING STONE
I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to s...
IRVING STONE
In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five ye...
IRVING STONE
My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a visi...
IRVING STONE
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
IRVING STONE
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the inte...
IRVING STONE
I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the reli...
IRVING STONE
I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was c...
IRVING STONE
There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE
Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his...
IRVING STONE
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried ...
IRVING PENN
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
IRVING PENN
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to ta...
IRVING PENN
Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL
Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH
If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH
If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
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Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we ...
IRVING KIRSCH
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
IRVING KIRSCH
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
IRVING KIRSCH
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first -...
IRVING KIRSCH
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE
I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER
I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER
At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER
With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
IRVING BABBITT
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
IRVING BABBITT
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself...
IRVING BABBITT
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficul...
IRVING BABBITT
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
IRVING BABBITT
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing ...
IRVING BABBITT
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership bec...
IRVING BABBITT
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path ...
IRVING BABBITT
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to ge...
IRVING BABBITT
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxi...
IRVING BABBITT
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plur...
IRVING BABBITT
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
IRVING BABBITT
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absen...
IRVING BABBITT
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once...
IRVING BABBITT
Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
IRVING AZOFF
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get re...
IRVING AZOFF
I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
IRVING AZOFF
The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, ar...
IRVING AZOFF
Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
IRVING AZOFF
I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...
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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when...
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'...
IRVING BURNS
Half my life is an act of revision.
JOHN IRVING
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
WASHINGTON IRVING
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IRVING LAYTON
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability ...
WASHINGTON IRVING
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on...
IRVING LAYTON
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The sto...
JOHN IRVING
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for ...
JOHN IRVING
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to...
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When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk t...
JOHN IRVING
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for ...
JOHN IRVING
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their...
WASHINGTON IRVING
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
JOHN IRVING
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
IRVING LAYTON
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with cons...
WASHINGTON IRVING
They who drink beer will think beer.
WASHINGTON IRVING
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
WASHINGTON IRVING
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...
WASHINGTON IRVING
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
IRVING LAYTON
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
IRVING LAYTON
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveli...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be suppla...
WASHINGTON IRVING
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
WASHINGTON IRVING
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
IRVING LAYTON
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are...
CLIFFORD IRVING
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not s...
IRVING KRISTOL
The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
WASHINGTON IRVING
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value
IRVING FISHER
Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
IRVING BATCHELLER
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea...
WASHINGTON IRVING