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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Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.
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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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The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.
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Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.
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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.
