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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Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash, and we just get along really well within one night, you know.
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If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.
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In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
