Juan Cole Quotes
I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.
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As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.
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It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
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If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
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In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.
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Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.
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I think that public discussions thus far, without a specific proposal, has created and enhanced a lot of confusion and fear among seniors, wondering if their benefits now are going to be cut.
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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
