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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

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• I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Kind
  • Stress
  • Gym

• As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Start
  • Ready
  • Busy

• I love my wife, I love my kids.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Wife

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Propaganda
  • Momentum
  • Masses

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Good
  • Better
  • Minimum Wage

• The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Care
  • Consciousness
  • Become

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • New
  • New York
  • Starting

• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sometimes
  • Fans
  • Ugly

• In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Technology
  • Trump
  • Ignorance

• Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Great
  • Enough
  • Philosophy

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Home
  • Guest
  • New Years

• I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Pride
  • Fat

• In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Communism

• When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • World
  • Rest
  • New York

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • Real
  • America

• It is essential to view learning as a total community responsibility.

  

  John Abbott
  • Community
  • Learning
  • Responsibility

• I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Responsibility
  • Writer
  • Critical