Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
There's another important reason not to send the Dreamers packing: they are essential to preserving the social insurance programs on which older Americans rely.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.
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Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.
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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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A drawing has never killed anyone.
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I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
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Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.
