Ted Rall Quotes
Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
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That's the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on.
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Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.
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When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
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You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.
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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
