Mikko Hypponen Quotes
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
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I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'
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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.
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I like mash-ups, taking contemporary songs and making them old... old songs, making them new.
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The business of America shouldn't be subsidizing business.
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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.
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Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.
