James Howard Kunstler Quotes
You could argue people are generally better off now mentally than they were back then. We follow the natural cycles. We eat real food instead of processed crap full of chemicals. We're not jacked up on coffee and television and sexy advertising all the time. No more anxiety about credit card bills.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.
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Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.
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Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
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Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.
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You could argue people are generally better off now mentally than they were back then. We follow the natural cycles. We eat real food instead of processed crap full of chemicals. We're not jacked up on coffee and television and sexy advertising all the time. No more anxiety about credit card bills.
