Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
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Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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Letters have been found with my name on assassination lists.
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I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
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Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
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Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.
