#being

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. ↗

— Maya Lin

#american #american dream #being #calling #dream

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#anywhere #being #believe #better #existing

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#always #being #being lied to #earliest #i

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#distributors #films #i #i think #less

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. ↗

— Laura Linney

#fight #instinctive #life #relationships #threatened

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#being #genius #i #i think #mad

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#any #being #fervent #good #his

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#beings #beliefs #biographies #collapses #determined

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#danger #lives #middle-aged #orthodox #people

I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#being #blond #boy #close #come