Carroll Quigley Quotes
When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
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For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
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The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.
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The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.
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Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.
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I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.
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I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.
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There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.
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I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
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By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
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All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
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Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians
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I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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But were there ever anyWrith'd not of passed joy?The feel of not to feel it,When there is none to heal it,Nor numbed sense to steel it,Was never said in rhyme.
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
