Rick Perlstein Quotes
Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.
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The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.
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I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.
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It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.
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When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
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What a deformed thief this fashion is.
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
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Working in the mills was hard work, but it was good money, I started out as a laborer making $3.49 a day and later, got moved to an even harder position as a bricklayer that had better pay for $5 a day. And for three long and hard years, I wondered to myself if this was where I was going to end up for the rest of my life. Finally, I decided I couldn't stay.
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The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.
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I like to define networking as cultivating mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships... The end result may be to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for them.
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There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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Of course there are a lot of books that are interesting to make movies out of, but on the other hand, I think video games are also kind of like bestselling books for the younger generation, and the younger generation is the one going to the theaters.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.
