John Perkins Quotes
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
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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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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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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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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.
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It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.
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How could there be billions of stars more distant than 6,000 years, if the world is only 6,000 years old?
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He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
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Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
