Charles Eisenstein Quotes
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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A lot of people don't love their bank.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
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Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
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Nowadays you don't need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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There is nothing permanent in the world except change.
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Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff.
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The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness - everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we're going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth - enjoy whatever time we're going to get!
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We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to serve it.
