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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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 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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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.
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My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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People are so codified - it's sad.
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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.
