Alan Charles Korsun Quotes
It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses - the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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Yoga is just good for you.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.
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It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses - the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
