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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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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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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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
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Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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One of my best friends while shooting 'Roots' was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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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.
