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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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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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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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
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We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
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Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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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 think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.
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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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London is very fashion-forward. Everyone's very stylish, and the designers are great. It's very my style, grungy and feminine - a bit of everything.
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Have you not heard When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him?
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.
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I believe if you act with people who are better than you, it's only going to make you better.
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Increasingly, I'm finding myself uncomfortable about how the Internet's developing, who's influencing its development, and who is not.
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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.
