Ted Rall Quotes
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
