Norman Spinrad Quotes
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If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that?
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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No day is alike, nor should it be.
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I have faith in the future of this promised land of America and in its institutions of representative government, but more than that, I have faith in you, the youth of America, to build even more securely on the foundations laid by the faith and devotion of your pioneer fathers.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.
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I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.
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They will have a much better idea of what the requirements are when they rebuild their house. It will have to meet certain criteria if they have flood insurance.
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
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I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
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The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.
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We cannot hope to build the Church and to bring hearts and souls to Christ without using every resource the Lord has given to help us take advantage of our opportunities and address the obstacles standing in our way.
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If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
