Arthur Kroker Quotes
The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a suburban President. A President whose senses have been defined by the suburbs, where lakes and public baths mutate into back yards and freeways, where walking means driving, where talking means telephoning, where watching means TV, and where living means real, imitation life.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.
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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
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I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I'm not used to it.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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The future of America may or may not bring forth a black President, a woman President, a Jewish President, but it most certainly always will have a suburban President. A President whose senses have been defined by the suburbs, where lakes and public baths mutate into back yards and freeways, where walking means driving, where talking means telephoning, where watching means TV, and where living means real, imitation life.
