Nick Turse Quotes
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
Quotes to Explore
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
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If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
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By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.
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I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.
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Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it.
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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I do believe in exercise and eating right. And I'm not an avid exerciser. I exercise twice a week.
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If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
