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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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion over the birds of the air and the animals and so forth.' You run it; it's yours; do what you like with it. I don't know how old that text is, but it represents an attitude that probably really got going with the beginning of agriculture. Before that, the hunter-gatherers were gentler people than the agriculture.
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I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
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This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
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I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
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What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
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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.
