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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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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Directing is a very, very difficult job.
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I've always been a believer that if you don't bet on yourself, how can you ask anyone else to.
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At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.
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In teaching color, you teach people how to look something and see the tone in it and break it down to be able to paint it and reproduce that color. But then, I'm psychedelic, so I look at color differently. I like colors that are in contrast with one another, so that they flicker back and forth.
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The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player.
