Charles Krauthammer Quotes
There’s a reason why the French are on their fifth republic, and we are on our first, and that’s because we did not have a worship of reason at the beginning of the Founding as the French did, and then discovered that the purity, the Rousseauian idea is simply not one for the real world, or not one that avoids the guillotine...

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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.
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With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.
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There’s a reason why the French are on their fifth republic, and we are on our first, and that’s because we did not have a worship of reason at the beginning of the Founding as the French did, and then discovered that the purity, the Rousseauian idea is simply not one for the real world, or not one that avoids the guillotine...