Andrew Vachss Quotes
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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I've become a master of the apology.
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I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that's real, and I think I give that to them.
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Why are they people more likely to listen to people who tell them they can't make changes than they are to people who tell them they can?
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Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
