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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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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Every tournament I go to, I'm kind of learning a little bit mentally and on the course.
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Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.
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Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
