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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Directing is a very, very difficult job.
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The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
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I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
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I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player.
