Ernest Mandel Quotes
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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My husband and I are just really laid back people.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
