Joseph Kanon Quotes
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.
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I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
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I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
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A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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Reality itself become something random, inexplicable.