William Greider Quotes
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
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It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.
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But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.
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I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
