John Pilger Quotes
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
Quotes to Explore
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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
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I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.
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First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
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I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.
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We should be robustly assisting the Free Syrian Army with equipment and also with training.
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I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.
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'We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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We know as little of a supreme being as of Matter. But there is as little doubt of the existence of a supreme being as of Matter. The world beyond is reality, and experiential fact. We only don't understand it.
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The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.
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We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.
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'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.
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Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.
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My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.
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Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
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It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. My principle in researching a novel is 'Read like a butterfly, write like a bee', and if this story contains any honey, it is entirely because of the quality of the nectar I found in the work of better writers.
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The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
