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I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind.
— Adam Schlesinger
The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
We have only two modes - complacency and panic.
— James R. Schlesinger
I usually start with a lyric and see where that takes me.
— Adam Schlesinger
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
— John Schlesinger
Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
— John Schlesinger
Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
— John Schlesinger
I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.
— Adam Schlesinger
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger
When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
— Adam Schlesinger
Coachella is a magnet for music-biz luminaries such as Tara Reid, Paris Hilton, and Cameron Diaz.
— Adam Schlesinger
Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.
— Adam Schlesinger
In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.
— Adam Schlesinger
A band can define their own success.
— Adam Schlesinger
Schlesinger was a passionate believer in New Deal liberalism, which he saw as the only way to civilize capitalism. And
— David Talbot
Leadership ignites the circuit between the individual and the mass and thereby alters history.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.
— John Schlesinger
History is full of surprises.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
but also where the
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
His peroration, no doubt
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I'm an idealist without illusions.[Ca. 1953, attributed to John F. Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 'A Thousand Days' — John F. Kennedy
Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.
— Adam Schlesinger
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The Mall Of America, outside Minneapolis, is just a mall. Yeah, it's big. So, like, instead of your typical 12 Starbucks, there are 30.
— Adam Schlesinger
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are forced to play in something called the 'Quicken Loans Arena.' This is a terrible name for a sports venue.
— Adam Schlesinger
London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail.
— Adam Schlesinger
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.
— Adam Schlesinger
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
In Defense of the World Order ... U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easyalso cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I like switching gears. I'm kind of a chameleon.
— Adam Schlesinger
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.
— Adam Schlesinger
A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.
— Adam Schlesinger
We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.
— Adam Schlesinger
America gets the President it deserves
— Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
The rising cult of ethnicity was a symptom of decreasing confidence in the American future.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.
— Adam Schlesinger
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.
— Adam Schlesinger
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
— James R. Schlesinger
History is, indeed, an argument without end.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Most of the jobs I've gotten are from people calling me. I don't actively solicit a lot of work like that, but maybe I should.
— Adam Schlesinger
I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving.
— Adam Schlesinger
With the TV stuff, we usually hand in final, finished tracks. The turnaround time is so tight that there's no time to demo anything; you just do it.
— Adam Schlesinger
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
With Fountains of Wayne, after 'Stacy's Mom' happened, we started making a little bit more money and getting a little bit more known.
— Adam Schlesinger
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
— John Schlesinger
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
— Adam Schlesinger
I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.
— Adam Schlesinger
Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing.
— Adam Schlesinger
I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'
— Adam Schlesinger
Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
— William H. Schlesinger
for an informed judgment
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.
— Adam Schlesinger
Truman makes friends without influencing people,' noted Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 'Dewey influences people without making friends.
— David Pietrusza
Honest history is the weapon of freedom.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.