Allan Nairn Quotes
The substantive difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is not really that great.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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Love is just chemistry.
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I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
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The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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Farewell! if ever fondest prayerFor other's weal avail'd on high,Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.
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By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.
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Mistaking no answers in practice for no answers in principle is a great source of moral confusion.
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People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Swedish people live for the summer - it transforms everyone. I don't want to miss having a Swedish summer vacation for as long as I live. It's my favorite thing in the world.
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The substantive difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is not really that great.
