Noam Chomsky Quotes
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I hate downtime.
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I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
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President Obama's executive actions on immigration are designed to temporarily address major flaws in our broken immigration system.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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Hiring consultants to conduct studies can be an excellent means of turning problems into gold, your problems into their gold.
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We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.
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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
