Michael Harrington Quotes
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.
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The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
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Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
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Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
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One of the things an actor tries to access is immediacy, so that you feel like you're experiencing it for the first time. But when you're playing a character who knows what's going to happen and can't stop himself to reacting although he knows he can't stop himself from reacting, there's a whole separate set of things to consider.
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If the kids like it, my fans like it - whoever this music pertains to, if they like it, it's for them. That's what this art is for.
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
