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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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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Beethoven is the first composer to represent the complex process of memory-not merely the sense of loss and regret that accompanies visions of the past, but the physical experience of calling up the past within the present.
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You can plant a dream.
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The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
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The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player.
