John Pilger Quotes
Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
Quotes to Explore
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
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Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day.
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I never dreamed about being on a hit television series. I've never really related my dreams to that specific of a work goal. I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With "E.R." we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
