Douglas Feith Quotes
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
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'My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.' -Chris Colfer on his characters
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I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.
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We can fight Big Industry.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
