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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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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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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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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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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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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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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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.
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Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.
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This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?
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A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.
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I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
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If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
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I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'
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My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
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First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.
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My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.
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When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.
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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.
