Irving Kristol Quotes
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?
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I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to other people that I'm not just another dummy.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.
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Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors. Improv doesn't have a ton of heroes that you can look to.
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The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.
