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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Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
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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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Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
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You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.
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In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
