John Prendergast Quotes
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.

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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.
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We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.