Rick Perlstein Quotes
I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.
Quotes to Explore
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I aspire only to silence.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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The popular and domesticated Jesus, who has become little more than a chrome-plated hood ornament on the guzzling Hummer of Western civilization, can thus be replaced with a more radical, saving, and, I believe, real Jesus.
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I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.
