Pierre Salinger Quotes
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.
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The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day-wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.
