John Pilger Quotes
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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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 don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
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I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.
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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
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When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'
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While we were never able to provide 100 percent certainty regarding the disposition of Iraq's proscribed weaponry, we did ascertain a 90-95 percent level of verified disarmament. This figure takes into account the destruction or dismantling of every major factory associated with prohibited weapons manufacture, all significant items of production equipment, and the majority of the weapons and agent produced by Iraq.
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I bought my parents a house. Then I bought myself a Rolex. My brother forced me to do it, but I'm glad he did.
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It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.
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Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
