Michael Specter Quotes
I think it's too soon to say that, and I think, basically - most of the people that I ran across and most of the studies that I saw suggest people don't go to McDonald's to eat healthy food. They go to eat fries and cheeseburgers.
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I know what it is like to fear violence. I understand the adrenalin rush that comes before violent confrontations. I write my scripts from an emotional point of view and direct so the audience can experience this adrenalin rush.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
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The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.
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She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
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I'm exploring the long history of women, first of all, being silenced and, secondly, not being taken seriously in the political and public sphere. It's a call to action through understanding and through looking at ourselves again and trying to reformulate the whole question of women and power.
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I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.
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I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
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The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
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A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.
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The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
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I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.
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As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.
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We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.
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I think it's too soon to say that, and I think, basically - most of the people that I ran across and most of the studies that I saw suggest people don't go to McDonald's to eat healthy food. They go to eat fries and cheeseburgers.
