Ken Auletta Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.
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For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'
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I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.
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When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn't get theatrical would just be gone.
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
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I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
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My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.
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I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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'Million Dollar Arm' touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundation's core values, such as children, teamwork and family.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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The world is not yet redeemed.
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Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
