Michael Novak Quotes
To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.
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Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.
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La raison et l'amour sont ennemis jurés.
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That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.
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I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States.
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.
