Ethan Bennett Farnum Quotes
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At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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The beach in Tel-Aviv I went to, it even looks and feels a little bit like Rio de Janeiro. Some other places are very European and I just like it. I thought it would be fun but it's a lot better than that. It's a lot more relaxed and a lot of fun, and I feel very secure, and I would tell my friends they should come here when they plan a vacation. Not only the history.
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Given what I do to my characters, I'm not sure I'd want to meet any of them.
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I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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Far from being the father of jihad, Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca.
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Loyalty expanded is not loyalty betrayed!
