Chris Hedges Quotes
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
