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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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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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 got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
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I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.
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I even made love to myself once. Uhh, I wasn't suppose to tell you that.
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The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
