Samuel Fuller Quotes
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
Gary Jennings
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
Dan Hicks
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Walter Bagehot
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Patrick Carney
The Black Keys
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
Forest Whitaker
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
Ed Stoppard
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I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
Faith Evans
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
Frances McDormand
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
Yul Brynner
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it on blogs. I think that's an immensely important development. I want to see much, much more of that. People who make music who are verbally articulate. And not all musicians are verbally articulate. But those who are should be encouraged to write about what they do and their perception of what other people do. It makes the discourse smarter.
Terry Teachout
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There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.
Benjamin Moser
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The boy in war is, to an extent found in almost no other form of work, inextricably bound up with the men and materials of his labor. … He is a fragment of American earth wedged into an open hillside in Korea and reworked by its unbearable sun and rain. … He is a light brown vessel of red Australian blood that will soon be opened and emptied across the rocks and ridges of Gallipoli from which he can never again become distinguishable.
Elaine Scarry
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
Samuel Fuller
