Gerald Epstein Quotes
Most progressive critics don't want to destroy the power of the Fed to regulate the macroeconomy and finance. They want to regain control over it so that it better serves the interests of the whole population.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.
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Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.
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I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.
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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
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In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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The Buddhist view, 'takes the function of work to be at least threefold': 'to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his egocentredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.'
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Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield? Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!
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If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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Can't is the cancer of happen.
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If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
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We played with a lot of energy. We played with a lot of passion.
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Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best.
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.
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Most progressive critics don't want to destroy the power of the Fed to regulate the macroeconomy and finance. They want to regain control over it so that it better serves the interests of the whole population.
