Cenk Uygur Quotes
I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
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There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.
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I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious.
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Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.
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If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.
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Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore.
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No day is alike, nor should it be.
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
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I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.
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I never really did a western western.
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If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.
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My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
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I played piano, I learned a lot about music.
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I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.
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I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
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I made $70,000 in the 1990s, when I was a corporate lawyer. I didn't see that salary again until I was on MSNBC.
