Michael Specter Quotes
In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
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Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.
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I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.
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I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.
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I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
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I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.
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I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous pre-season training - something I've not previously experienced. And I knocked local football on the head this winter, simply to ensure I didn't pick up any injuries.
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Water's never clumsy.
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I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.
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In general, I believe it's fine to have impassioned conversations about Gwyneth Paltrow, but those of us who do so should admit it's a recreational activity and not a moral referendum.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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From my point of view, my job is just to work hard for our franchisees, so they can maintain the position they're in, and to grow market share.
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NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.
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In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.
