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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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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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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If you're going to write a story, avoid contemporary references. They date a story and they have no staying power.
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Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
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I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
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I give people permission to be kids again.
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I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.
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If you get just a bit of exercise in before every meal, you'll really see a difference.
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There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
