William Blum Quotes
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
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Die einfachste und bekannteste Wahrheit erscheint uns augenblicklich neu und wunderbar, sobald wir sie zum ersten Mal an uns selbst erleben.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
