Noam Chomsky Quotes
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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I love running and I will always run.
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Netflix, I love you.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.
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I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
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Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.
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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
