Ethan Nadelmann Quotes

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

Ethan Nadelmann

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• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

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• Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.

  

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• The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.

  

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• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

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• Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

  

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• A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

  

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• I’m saying that men go from control by their mothers to control by their wives, and this is the horror men’s lives. And feminism refuses to see this.

  

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• Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

  

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• I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

  

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  • Time
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• Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

  

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• I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.

  

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• Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

  

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• I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

  

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• I've been planted here to be a vessel for acting... That's why I'm really taking any part, regardless of how complicated it's going to be.

  

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• Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

  

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• I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

  

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• The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

  

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• Mustafa Kemal's government was certainly authoritarian, but he had a saying which is profoundly true, I don't remember the exact words, but what he said was that I am a dictator so that there will never again be a dictator in Turkey, and I think that was right. He felt that there were certain changes which needed to be made. He wanted to make those changes, he felt they were essential.

  

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• The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

  

  Ethan Nadelmann
  • Thinking
  • Government
  • Guilty