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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Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.
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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
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Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.
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Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.
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Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.
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The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
