Edward S. Herman (Edward Samuel Herman) Quotes
Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time. It's a mantra conveniently invoked when it is proposed that government do something the faithful don't like, and just as conveniently ignored whenever they want government to do something for them.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
Saint Basil
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Kara Walker
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
Iain Sinclair
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
Patrick Whitesell
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
Mahesh Babu
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
Action Bronson
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
Carine Roitfeld
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
D. L. Hughley
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
Adam Cohen
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
Hafez
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Today, models are able to share industry news, trends, and communicate with fans through Twitter, Instagram and blogs. So in a way, our position as models is way more personable and relatable.
Karlie Kloss
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Vera Wang
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The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
Ted Yoho
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I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
Sally Field
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
Barack Obama
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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
William Hazlitt
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I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
Robert Smith The Cure
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Despite the darkness and the rhythmic trotting of the huge four-legged brick pulling the coach, Cole had failed to relax enough to sleep.
Brandon Mull
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It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.
Akio Toyoda
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To me, absurdity is the only reality.
Frank Zappa
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Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time. It's a mantra conveniently invoked when it is proposed that government do something the faithful don't like, and just as conveniently ignored whenever they want government to do something for them.
Edward S. Herman