Edgar Snow Quotes
In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.
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And I know that all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That’s the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can’t do the work, or it’s taken from you, then what’s any good? You have to have something....
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Great artists have no country.
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My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid.
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
