Anthony Greenwald Quotes
The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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I don't have goals in life.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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It's about not accepting every little challange thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
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I think I have a good head on my shoulders.
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I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
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The Congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with achieving stable prices and maximum employment - the dual mandate.
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It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.
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The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.
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The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.
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The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player.
