Michael Herr Quotes
You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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My energy level has not changed.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.
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I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
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Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
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I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.
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I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
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You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .
