John Fiske Quotes
Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
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I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.
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Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?
