Sidney Blumenthal Quotes
As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
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The fans make the person a star.
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I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
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The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
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CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process.
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As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.
