Eric Schlosser Quotes
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.
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Saying "now it's done" . It's horrible. Sometimes I force myself to do it or I know I will turn crazy.
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
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Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
