#only

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ↗

— Walter Legge

#arts #chaos #common #democracy #fatal

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#allowed #breathe #films #i #i love

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#dealt #discuss #fundamental #fundamental questions #future

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#asking #asking questions #expert #how #i

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#around #city #country #go #i

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#also #american #army #carried #color

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#ideal #influence #monad #only #over

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#arise #brutes #empirical #far #like

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#changes #differentiation #eminently #exists #god

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#act #acting #beauty #care #fairly