Paul Craig Roberts Quotes
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
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It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
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Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.
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Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.
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When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.
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Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
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As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
