James Howard Kunstler Quotes
I'd been carrying my Ruger .41 Magnum so many days that I had almost forgotten it was there. This was the kind of world we now lived in.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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The world wants to like America.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
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I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
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While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
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Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.
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The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They're the people who make the industry tick.
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
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Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.
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When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
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When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.
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I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.
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You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don't have that full commitment when you're pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there's not much room for error, and you'll come off worse.
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Like millions of other Americans, I receive health insurance through my employer.
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I'd been carrying my Ruger .41 Magnum so many days that I had almost forgotten it was there. This was the kind of world we now lived in.
