Peggy Noonan Quotes
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
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I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'
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There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!
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If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
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The public always picks quality.
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The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.
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And hope is like love... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
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Abortion is either OK or it's not.
