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I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.
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After I wrote Handmaid’s Tale, people came up to me and asked why weren’t there any protests. And I said, 'You don’t understand totalitarianism.' A real totalitarianism doesn’t fool around with protests in the streets.
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I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
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Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.
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Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.
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I'll take lying in your arms tonight over and above any love I've known. Memories may find me, but they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over yesterday, anyday.
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My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.
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It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
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My fans have always been supportive during my highs and lows. They have been the best set of fans, ever.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.
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I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.
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The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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The question will be asked, 'Should 500 men, ordinary men, chosen accidentally from among the unemployed, override the judgment...of millions of people who are engaged in the industry which makes the wealth of the country?'
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In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.
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Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant.
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I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.
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When you look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren, when you picture their greatness and potential, do you feel that they are getting the education that is up to par with who they were born to become?
