Achille Mbembe Quotes
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I am very much a Republican.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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There are moths outside, ready to die for a light they crave but which is denied to them, shielded from them [...] Sometimes, in the midst of all I have been given, I watch the moths in us all. Everybody has a light which they think they cannot live without.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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If one is not a human being, what is one?
