Haskell Wexler Quotes
The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg war crime trials, we're doomed to have it repeated.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I feel like if I'm sick, I need flowers. I'm very open about saying what I need from a partner, and he needs to meet those demands.
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
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Vivere me dices, sed sic ut vivere nolim
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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
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Enlightenment should be a human right.
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.
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Law without penalty is only advise.
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Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".
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It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.
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I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
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Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
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The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
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I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.
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The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.
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I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.
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The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg war crime trials, we're doomed to have it repeated.
