Rick Perlstein Quotes
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.
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We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.
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No small hole can so modify the convergence of rays of light as to prevent, at a long distance, the transmission of the true form of the luminous body causing them.
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I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!
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Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
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The older you get, things like this become special. You value every moment and memory you have. When somebody bestows an award like this on you, you reflect. It's pretty special.
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He held her face in his hands, and stared into her eyes, and said that she was his for only a while anyway, and that it wasn’t his going to Cranwell that would split them up. “You’re destined for greater things, Susannah Hammond. I see it in you. You’re so clever, so bright. So beautiful. So special. I’m not any of those things. Except when I’m flying, maybe. Down here, I’m ordinary. I’m going to be just a memory for you. A sweet one, I hope. Happy. But just a part of your past. I might be good enough for now, but I’m not good enough forever. Not for you.
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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
