Douglas Feith Quotes
Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
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There are two words for everything.
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Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.
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Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.
