Sidney Blumenthal Quotes
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I'm very candid.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
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I saw how vulnerable we all are and how exposed we all are and how this is an issue that affects everyone who owns a piece of technology. Which is certainly most people in this country.
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A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
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While there have been some encouraging signs that Japan's economy is declining less sharply, most forecasters do not see a recovery this year or into next.
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The size of the energy sector in Mexico is just so vast; it has an outsize impact on the rest of the Mexican economy.
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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
