Andrei Codrescu Quotes
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.
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And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.
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I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
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If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.
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The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
