Anthony de Jasay Quotes
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement.
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No don't you know my daddy told me,Told me right from the startAbout youth.He said no matter how old a man is,He's partly a boy in his heart.Yeah, and that's the truth.
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With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.
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Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.
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Political ideals must be based upon ideals for the individual life. The aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible.
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There is an instinctive understanding that the cultural, social and political development of a nation is a dynamic process which has to be given purpose and direction by drawing on tradition as well as by experiment, innovation and a willingness to evaluate both old and new ideas objectively.
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There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
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I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
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People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.
