Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes
The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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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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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
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To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.
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A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
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No, I ain't a star - I'm just a kid from Brooklyn, living his dream.
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I try to be conscious of others, put my best foot forward and show growth. I just try to be my best self - and I think that is the most important thing.
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If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.
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It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
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In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.
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Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
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Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.
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The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.
