Pat Buchanan Quotes
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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When the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British, in time-honoured fashion, abandoned their allies. Who were subsequently wiped out by the Americans along with any other tribes that happened to be in the same general vicinity – even those that had actually been allied with the US government during the war. It’s exactly this sort of thing, of course, which gives colonialism a bad name.
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As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.
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I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.
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If war is the continuation of politics by other means, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means.
