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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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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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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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 keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.
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How can you not be affected by disappointments relating to work you love so much?
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My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.
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The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.
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I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
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I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.
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I'm not fighting for the Marlboro-ization of marijuana.
