G. Edward Griffin Quotes
There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I love cycling.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
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I've got plenty of advice from a number of other actors. Me? I don't give advice.
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There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.
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I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did everything they knew how to do to support me. My dad was always kinda my roadie; he drove me from gig to gig. But I got my own gigs. I was this 12-year-old kid, shuffling business cards, calling people, telling them I wanted to play.
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There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
