Paul Fussell Quotes
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
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We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.
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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
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It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of 'an abundance or surplus' arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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For years I've kept a list of dream projects.
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Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.
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Romney is an accomodationist technocrat who is an ideological pretzel of a man.
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Some ministers are fond of talking about a return to Victorian values. We must realise that those Victorian values are being expressed by some of the younger people in this society in shameful and disturbing disregard for other members of their generation who are not as fortunate as they are in having a job.
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Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.
