Michael Scheuer Quotes
You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.
