Sam Keen Quotes
It is only from the perspective of the outlaw … that we are able to see that mythically informed normality is a form of mass hypnosis.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.
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Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents - he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.
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We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
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I think I would choose to do things because they are interesting, because I like a character or because it's very well-written. Or because it makes sense.
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You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.
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It is only from the perspective of the outlaw … that we are able to see that mythically informed normality is a form of mass hypnosis.
