John Gates Quotes
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I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.
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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
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You cannot play naive if you're not.
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Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.
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You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.
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We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.
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Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.
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We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'
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I would love to get shredded or whatever you want to call it, but at the same time, I really enjoy treating myself to a cheat meal more than once a week. I'll eat a piece of bread, or I'll drink a beer, and I'll have fun with my friends. For me, it's really more about being healthy than it is about gaining 40 lbs. of muscle.
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Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene, but I've heard a great deal about how 'Your Republic Is Calling You' reminded English readers of those two writers. I don't really have any particular interest in Cold War spy novels.
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When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.
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During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
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We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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I went to Northwestern. I bleed purple and white.
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If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.
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Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
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The message sent is not always the message received.
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The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
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I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?
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Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .
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According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.
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We would all be naive if we didn't think that some of those messages weren't erased.
