Ralph Nader Quotes
This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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TV can reach broad audiences, mass audiences, niche audiences; it can be local, regional, national; it can be spots, sponsorship, interactive. It can be anything you want it to be. I tend to think of TV as the Swiss Army knife of media, it's got something for everybody.
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Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov.
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One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.
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This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
