William S. Lind Quotes
What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I like being unconventional.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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I've been racketeered on.
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In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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No girl wants a secretly gay boyfriend, every dude wants a secretly gay girlfriend.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.
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What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
