G. Edward Griffin Quotes
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I don't like possessions.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.
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The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
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I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.
Colson Whitehead -
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System.
