Carroll Quigley Quotes
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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I love my family.
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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I've had very bleak experiences in hospitals, but they were also sometimes very funny.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.
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'Billy on the Street' is the hardest thing that I will ever do.
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CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.
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I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.
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In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.
