James Howard Kunstler Quotes
As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know? Hard on the outside but soft on the inside.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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I've had surprises on the campaign trail that have both been just absolutely inspiring and affirming of the great values of the people of this country, and I've had some experiences that are disappointing and troubling.
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No one can live under degradation.
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As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.
