Carl Forti Quotes
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us. We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.
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My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.
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A small town is automatically a world of pretense. Since everyone knows everyone else's business, it becomes the job of the populace to act as if they don't know what is going on instead of its being their job to try to find out.
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I used to come to the gay pride parades in New York. I've been to a few down in Miami Beach, if memory serves.
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If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
