Douglas Feith Quotes
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
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I don't believe the United States is going through a midlife crisis. The United States is going through an adolescent crisis.
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
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I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.
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If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.
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The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.
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There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
