John Trudell Quotes
Columbus, I guess it all did start with Columbus. ... To me he was like a virus, a disease. I spent a lot of time protesting, trying to figure out how to deal with this disease. I think we really need to put serious thought into understanding that we're dealing with a disease.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.
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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
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Columbus, I guess it all did start with Columbus. ... To me he was like a virus, a disease. I spent a lot of time protesting, trying to figure out how to deal with this disease. I think we really need to put serious thought into understanding that we're dealing with a disease.
