William J. Mann quote: "With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously."

'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't po...
WILLIAM J. MANN

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that c...
WILLIAM J. MANN

The landscape has shifted and continually more Americans don't want to see the estate tax repealed.
WILLIAM MANN

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but b...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these t...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously enc...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minut...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our asset...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and p...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international re...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILLIAM J. DURANT

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILLIAM J. DURANT

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
WILLIAM J. DURANT

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed ou...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are a...
WILLIAM J. FEDERER

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the fac...
WILLIAM J. PERRY

Persistence wears down resistance.
WILLIAM J. FEDERER

To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inabi...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, f...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of other...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a sp...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have pl...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

It seems to me that it is these extremists who are advocating a soft approach. Their oversimplificat...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

Wisdom and knowledge decrease in inverse proportion to age.
WILLIAM J. LYNOTT

All real education is the architecture of the soul.
WILLIAM J. BENNETT

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it ...
J. WILLIAM GALBRAITH

Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.
WILLIAM J. TOMS

The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
WILLIAM J. BROAD

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough ...
WILLIAM J. O'NEIL

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minu...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously con...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r...
WILLIAM J. DURANT

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILLIAM J. DURANT

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate th...
WILLIAM J. MAYO

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means o...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity,...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most nee...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass v...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us w...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's t...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictabil...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation work...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of ...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I still believe in a place called Hope.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in ...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody'...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Character is a journey, not a destination.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wr...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and goo...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>
LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>
POLITICIANS a...
WILLIAM J. FEDERER

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected ...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you&...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declinin...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a bette...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANN...
WILLIAM J. FEDERER

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is not...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

When I was president, I worked hard to give you more peace and shared prosperity, to give you an Ame...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

In 1979, just after I became governor, I asked Hillary to chair a rural health committee to help exp...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of peopl...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of other...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILLIAM J. DURANT

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
WILLIAM J. BROAD

We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become "unthinkable" thinking s...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste,...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security th...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibili...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no id...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

If ignorance is bliss, today's liberals must be in a state of continuous ecstasy.
WILLIAM J DAGER

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and g...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

When I became president with a commitment to reform health care, Hillary was a natural to head the h...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

There is no such thing as justice, only good and bad lawyers.
WILLIAM J DAGER

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must...
WILLIAM J. PERRY

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obam...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates hav...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to ha...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that no...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

The worst-case scenario I see is a major nuclear arms race unfolding in the Pacific. That's not a fo...
WILLIAM J. PERRY

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take t...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

What is pretty clear is that we will be faced with the specter of another nuclear power which can us...
WILLIAM J. PERRY

I believe the assessment that if we pull out it will leave an unsettled situation that is bad for th...
WILLIAM J. PERRY

I don't believe anybody can be protected with high confidence from car bombs in urban areas. The Isr...
WILLIAM J. PERRY

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the informa...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know ...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became o...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Even when I was little, I was big.
WILLIAM J. PERRY

The message was, briefly stated, that the political process is working.
WILLIAM J. PERRY

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruc...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and s...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.....
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibili...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

To avoid a nuclear war . . . you may think that's pretentious but that's its main goal.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

It was never intended by the Founding Fathers that the President of the United States should be a ve...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

It's the one activity that gives me some hope that the human race won't commit suicide, though I sti...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. I had no ...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

In New York City we need police officers to protect even the dead.
WILLIAM J. DEAN

Those who have not and wish they had, are those who proclaim the battle cry of dictators, communists...
WILLIAM J DAGER

I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how s...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearl...
WILLIAM J. LOCKE

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminis...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign th...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to coo...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade.....
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until w...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people th...
WILLIAM J. MAYO

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
WILLIAM J. MAYO

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someon...
WILLIAM J. FEDERER

Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the ...
SALLY MANN

The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while re...
SALLY MANN

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi...
SALLY MANN

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, bo...
SALLY MANN

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
SALLY MANN

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
SALLY MANN

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
SALLY MANN

At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ...
SALLY MANN

It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and...
SALLY MANN

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
SALLY MANN

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, an...
SALLY MANN

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
SALLY MANN

I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packe...
SALLY MANN

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
SALLY MANN

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
SALLY MANN

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the ...
SALLY MANN

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f...
SALLY MANN

I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about...
SALLY MANN

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the abi...
SALLY MANN

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living condit...
SALLY MANN

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity...
SALLY MANN

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a...
SALLY MANN

Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst...
SALLY MANN

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN

In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o...
MANFRED MANN

The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a ...
MANFRED MANN

I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the coun...
MANFRED MANN

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
HEINRICH MANN

More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and...
HORACE MANN

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
HORACE MANN

To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN

The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ...
AIMEE MANN

We recorded the band pretty much live.
AIMEE MANN

I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,...
AIMEE MANN

Something isn't right ? I don't know how I know,
AIMEE MANN

I really wanted the record to have a ... feel of an era,
AIMEE MANN

I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN

You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level pl...
AIMEE MANN

The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ...
AIMEE MANN

Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy...
AIMEE MANN

I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo...
AIMEE MANN

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
THOMAS MANN

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
THOMAS MANN

It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
BARRY MANN

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
BARRY MANN

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote s...
BARRY MANN

We've written something like 900 songs in all.
BARRY MANN

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
BARRY MANN

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
BARRY MANN

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinki...
BARRY MANN

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
BARRY MANN

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themsel...
BARRY MANN

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direc...
BARRY MANN

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar ...
BARRY MANN

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and...
BARRY MANN

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear...
BARRY MANN

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
BARRY MANN

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
BARRY MANN

We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
BARRY MANN

With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.

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William J. Mann

With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.

William J. Mann

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