Blase Bonpane Quotes
Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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I never starved myself.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
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We all have an escape. Mine was theater.
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
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If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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Children who have been silenced often enough learn not to talk about race publicly. Their questions don’t go away, they just go unasked.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling.
