John Pilger Quotes
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround itJohn Pilger
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
Sam Kean -
Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman -
As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
Hanna Rosin -
I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
Adam Giles
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
Hannah Kearney -
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
Larry King -
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel -
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
Edmund Phelps -
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
Damon Galgut -
The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
Rand Paul -
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
Barbara Amiel -
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Carla Bley -
The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
Randall Park -
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
Taraji P. Henson
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson -
When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.
Janine di Giovanni -
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
Chin-Ning Chu -
One might argue that proper understanding of any social situation would require game-theoretic analysis.
John Harsanyi -
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
Ellen Douglas -
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it
John Pilger