Anton Myrer Quotes
Postwar America would bear no more similarity to prewar America than the Restoration Monarchy bore to Revolutionary France; what would emerge would be a vast, impersonal juggernaut of industrial cartels, a mountainous administrative bureaucracy and a prestigious military junta—and beneath these, far beneath, an emotional and highly subservient citizenry whose attitudes and actions would be created, aroused, manipulated, subverted by the roar of the mass media … it was so clear! Why couldn’t the dunderheads see it? Whoever could see it—whoever rode this wave deftly, keeping just ahead of its boiling crest—would hold the future securely in his fine right hand
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Being evil is easy.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.
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It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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Postwar America would bear no more similarity to prewar America than the Restoration Monarchy bore to Revolutionary France; what would emerge would be a vast, impersonal juggernaut of industrial cartels, a mountainous administrative bureaucracy and a prestigious military junta—and beneath these, far beneath, an emotional and highly subservient citizenry whose attitudes and actions would be created, aroused, manipulated, subverted by the roar of the mass media … it was so clear! Why couldn’t the dunderheads see it? Whoever could see it—whoever rode this wave deftly, keeping just ahead of its boiling crest—would hold the future securely in his fine right hand
