Karl Polanyi Quotes
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As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
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When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
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I will be off the bike for about a week but look forward to resuming my training.
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Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I am interested in.
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The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
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Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.
