I. F. Stone Quotes
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I'll say anything to live.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
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There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
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They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
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My mother taught me to wash my hair as little as possible, and to rinse it with Coke before a shoot for a sexy, tousled look.
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
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All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
