Randolph Bourne Quotes
War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.
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Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.
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It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.
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War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
