Sebastian Junger Quotes
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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I don't run behind authority.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.
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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.
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It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.
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You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
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When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.
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I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
