Chalmers Johnson Quotes
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
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Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.
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USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
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After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
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I really prize and love great painting.
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
