Charlie Pierce Quotes
Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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I know this will blow your mind, but most people would probably never ever get it, but I listen to classical music when nobody else is around. It calms me down and I can get into this, like, deep thinking mode, you know, because there's really no lyrics to it, so you're not following something that - that you're listening to a story.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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I am frequently attacked.
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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This is Phobos... Its mean density is known, and it is consistent with organic matter. Deimos... same story.
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It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
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Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.
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Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.
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There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
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Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.
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Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.
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Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
