Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.
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Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
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When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.
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I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
