Leonard Peikoff Quotes
Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I don't like possessions.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.
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There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.
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If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
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'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.
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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
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Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.
