Karl Malden Quotes
During that McCarthy period, I was a frightened young man. I was working, but I was frightened.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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During that McCarthy period, I was a frightened young man. I was working, but I was frightened.
