Jonah Goldberg Quotes
One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.
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One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
