William Greider Quotes
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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I love to smile.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
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History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.
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While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
