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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When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.
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The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
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My big thing is I think women should birth their babies, as long as they're healthy and their doctor says it's OK, however they want, whether that means in the hospital with no drugs, at home with an epidural, elective C-section, whatever.
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I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
