Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
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In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I'm an economist, not a political scientist.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.
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It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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It goes without saying that it's important to vote.
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As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.
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One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Trump has emphatically denied ties to Russia - a claim refuted by his Twitter feed and a cursory Google search. Putin says his government had nothing to do with the hack of the DNC computers, even though it carelessly left a trail of crumbs tracing back to his intelligence services. The cunning liar is exploiting the blundering one.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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L'existence précède et commande l'essence.
