Andrei Codrescu Quotes

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Andrei Codrescu

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• I read part of it all the way through.

  

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• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

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• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  

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• If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

  

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• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

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• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

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• Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

  

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• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  

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• We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

  

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• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

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• My mechanics are so screwed up, there's nothing you can really tell me except stay back. Reggie was on me to stay aggressive, stay positive. This is a humbling game and like he said, if it was easy, he'd still be playing. That's good to hear from a Hall of Fame hitter.

  

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• The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

  

  Andrei Codrescu
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil