Ted Rall Quotes
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
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It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
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Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.
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Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
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I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
