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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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.
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The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.
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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.
