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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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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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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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
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And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.
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In present-day America, expressing reverence for those who serve in uniform is something akin to a religious obligation. Everyone professes to cherish America's "warriors." Yet such bountiful, if superficial, expressions of regard camouflage a growing gap between those who serve and those who applaud from the sidelines. Our present-day military system, based on the misnamed All-Volunteer Force, is neither democratic nor effective. Why has discussion and debate about its deficiencies not found a place among the nation's political priorities?
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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.
