Norman Finkelstein Quotes
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.
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I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
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Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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I have always been a fan of Kajol Ma'am. The way she portrayed Zooni's character in 'Fanaa' is etched in my memory. I have watched the film several times, and each time I have learnt something new from her performance.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.
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He didn’t know if he had the right or not. Didn’t know if he was taking like a Red man, just what the land offered, or stealing like a White man, murdering whatever it pleased him to kill.
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As always, a lot of bad books will be published. Some good books will be published, and you have to seek them out.
Colson Whitehead -
By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
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I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East and Europe.
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I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.
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People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
