Edward S. Herman (Edward Samuel Herman) Quotes

There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

Edward S. Herman

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• I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Before

• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • House
  • Working
  • Office

• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Never
  • Guess

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • God
  • Rights
  • Capitalism

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Change
  • Light

• I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Things
  • Imagine
  • Either

• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Care
  • Television

• You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Always

• The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Country
  • Money
  • Travel

• Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• I don’t fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, 'You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me.' It makes me weepy … but I don’t think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Business
  • Kids

• I started slow, and eventually I started working out 4 to 5 days a week. We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Great
  • Real
  • Hope

• It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True

• Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Time
  • Real
  • Hurt

• When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Writing
  • Isolation

• I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around a thousand kids. All smart. We had a strict dress code. If you wore blue jeans to school, they sent you home.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Up
  • School
  • Home

• Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

  

  Mortimer Zuckerman
  • Government
  • Public
  • Essentials

• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  

  Edward S. Herman
  • World
  • Real
  • Past