Michael Hastings Quotes
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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We shred every day.
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising.
