A Quote by Mike Royko

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Mike Royko

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Mike Royko
American - Writer
September 19, 1932 - April 29, 1997

A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The Bible says that if we're going to boast about anything, it should glorify God. I'll boast about all of my faults, I'll boast about all of my addictions that God has conquered, I'll boast about everything that God has conquered in my life, but there's just certain things that I'll never talk about.

Sam Childers

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

George Bernard Shaw

Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

Gary Johnson

Hollywood's not a progressive place. Everyone likes to think that Hollywood is hip, but it's not hip at all.

Sinbad

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Matthew Arnold

I love music. I love making songs. I feel like I've been given a path where I can contribute, where I can protest if somebody does something really obviously wrong or inhuman right in front of me, where I can make a difference. Where I can most especially elevate, make you happy, elevate the condition, elevate the thing.

David Crosby

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

John Steinbeck

It's not in the nature of stoic Cincinnatians to boast, which is fortunate, really, for they have meager pickings to boast about.

A. A. Gill

we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.

Joan Robinson

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

Ashley Tisdale

Hollywood always likes to create a star.

Nicole Holofcener

One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.

Eric Metaxas

Understand me, Hollywood miniseries are very popular in England. But British miniseries make a tremendous mark on the national consciousness. They become part of the national culture and mythology... at least for a time.