Ethan Nadelmann Quotes
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
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I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
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My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.
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From one moment to another one can lose heart.
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'
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I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.
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In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
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I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.
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Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.
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I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.
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People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'
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When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
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I don’t know why you’re fighting it, Len. One, he’s frigging gorgeous. Two, he’s so frigging gorgeous you need to count it twice. Three, he saw you fall down and left practice to see if you were okay. That’s, like, devotion.
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Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word 'disease' was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. 'Which disease?' 'The disease of love.'
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The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.
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I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana.