Walden Bello Quotes
Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.
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There is good and there is bad, and then there are mothers.
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The siren song of pluralism will always drown out the sobering voice of history.
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Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.
