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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. Renata Adler
History Generation Experience Own Pretend Simply Self-Defeating Always Than Younger Your
Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation. Richard Carmona
Leadership Generation First First Lady Spring National Awareness This Generation Month Obama Obesity Within End Michelle Efforts Childhood Lady Actions Designation
The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit hole of his characters' souls, was our generation's anti-star and the chameleonic film actor of his age. Richard Corliss
Age Strange Generation People Stars Other Philip Our Definition Characters Troubled Disappeared Toxic Souls His Truism Movie Hole While Rabbit Themselves Who Film Actor Play
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. Richard Holbrooke
War Generation Experience World Everyone States Could Shattering Anything Vietnam United Believed United States World War World War II
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. Richard Lamm
Generation Living Putting Maintaining Been Debt Next Next Generation Standard Things
I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation. Richard Schiff
Great Generation Somebody Films Our Saw Our Generation Out Table David Know Goose Read Doing Years Years Ago Version Jack Next Next Thing Al Film Al Pacino Play Thing
So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff. Rick Baker
Generation People Television Frankenstein My Generation Stuff Up Shock So Many People Grew Theater Package Many Mummy Dracula Universal
Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so. Rick Perlstein
Generation Sometimes Responsibility Every Think New Like Devise Another Democrats New Generation Years Program
Many of us, of course, have children, and I think that the type of country that we are going to leave in our wake by rewarding bad behavior... is not a better handoff to the next generation and generation after that. Rick Santelli
Generation Better Behavior Country Think Type Our Bad Bad Behavior Course Leave Wake Going Rewarding Children After Us Next Next Generation Many
The Apollo generation wasn't a historical fluke. It was the predictable result of what happens when a free nation actually decides on something and goes for it. We can do it again, do it better, and do it for keeps this time. But we must decide: Will America, as a nation, support the settlement of space? Rick Tumlinson
Time Generation Better Result Space Will Free Nation Settlement Fluke Must Something Support Historical America Goes Decide Predictable Happens Again Apollo Keeps Actually
We need Big Ideas, as we are in a time of small people, and as Kennedy showed with Apollo, doing something grand in space is the biggest. At a time of huge national doubt and fear of losing our leadership as a nation to others, it focused us, gave us something positive and inspired a generation. Rick Tumlinson
Positive Time Leadership Generation People Fear Losing Space Big Nation National Doubt Gave Others Our Focused Something Small Inspired Small People Ideas Doing Huge Big Ideas Biggest Grand Us Apollo Kennedy Need
I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation. Ricky Schroder
Respect Generation Kids Nerd Like Hip Been Lot Huge Done Gained Movies Cool Now
For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for them, a lot can change. I don't know another way to restore our identity if it's not art. Rithy Panh
Art Change Director Generation Young Our Way See Restore Know Nominated Identity Another Another Way Cambodia Go Lot Them Film
Pain is handed down from one generation to the next. Rithy Panh
Generation Pain Down Handed Next
People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime. Rithy Panh
Generation People Tell My Generation Through Like Very Did Regime Much Rouge Lived
With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation. Rob Dyrdek
Generation Hawk Factory Take Beyond Represent Want Skating Fantasy Tony
My kids love going to the comics store with me, but they have insatiable appetites for new apps, and I truly believe we have to be online in order to reach their generation. Rob Liefeld
Love Me Generation Believe Apps Kids Insatiable Online New Reach Comics Truly Going Order Store Appetites
That's a good sign for a movie: When it becomes part of the lexicon and pop culture for an entire generation. I've been in many movies, luckily, that get quoted. Rob Riggle
Good Generation Culture Sign Entire Good Sign Part Becomes Been Get Movie Quoted Movies Pop Pop Culture Many Luckily
A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all. Robbie Robertson
Generation Experience People Way Unpleasant My Generation Write Songs Feel Lot Anymore Really Hard
I'm a fan boy when it comes to Michael Buble. He's just so good at 'it'. He's got a voice of this generation, but he's like a time capsule; he's got a voice that could have fit in anywhere over the last hundred years. It's stellar. Robbie Williams
Time Good Generation This Generation Hundred Hundred Years Voice Could Stellar He Over Like Boy Got Years Fit Michael Just Fan Anywhere Last
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians. Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Me Musicians Generation Before Would Composers Classical More Obvious Go Were Been Them Film Based
I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him. Robert Crais
Today Generation Writing Impossible Every Think Has-Been Detective Followed Parker Writer Robert Genre Him Read Been Influenced Fiction Fiction Writing
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter. Robert Green Ingersoll
Day Man Woman Generation Mother Wife Men Daughter Find More He Greater Estimate Grander Meanest Lowest Thinks
What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abrams movie franchise is that - the corollary effect is that it creates a new generation of fans, and they're interested in all of it. They don't just sit around and wait for the next movie to come out; they'll go back and re-examine episodes. Robert Picardo
Generation Wonderful Wait Fans Sit Trek Corollary Back Franchise Out About Having New Re-Examine Come Around New Generation Go Been Effect Just Movie Interested Creates Next Episodes Successfully Star Star Trek
I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting. Robert Quine
You Generation Fighting Think Guitars Pretty Blank Headphones Well Lot Up Going Listen Holds Product
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. Robert Trout
Technology Science Generation Science And Technology Living Society Increasing Additional Characterized Rising Factories Invested Generating Investment New Surplus Discoveries Which Infrastructure Successful Standard Population Basic
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