Delarivier Manley Quotes
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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I operate from a place of delusion-that’s what the Fame is all about... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
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If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
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Courage and clemency are equal virtues.