David Brock Quotes
When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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The more our children see men being paid to take responsibility for children, the more respectable it will be for men to do work compatible with their role as dads.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.
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If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.
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The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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Funny but, for me, the Bible was a hobby before it was a serious study. It was the thing I'd sneak off and do on the side, feeling rather guilty because I wasn't doing my real school homework or whatever... and never thinking I would make it a life's work.
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I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.
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I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
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Public health research should help people have the most enjoyable and fulfilling lives they can have, which are also the healthiest lives they can have.
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When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
