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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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.
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It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.
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Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.
