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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 easy
also 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.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing. — John Schlesinger

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.