James Carville Quotes
When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.
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When you do good work, people will notice you.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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Pink Friday is a celebration of my life at this moment; it is a reflection of me as a creator, and an expression of me as a woman.
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The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.
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When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.
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When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
