Clive Thompson Quotes
America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
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Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
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They redid 'Roots,' and everyone was saying, 'Oh, it shouldn't have been done.' I was like, 'It definitely should have been done.' Because it needs to be refurbished for the new generation so they can understand it.
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If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'
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America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.
