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'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
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Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.
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Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
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Wealth and power are means to women; women are means to genetic eternity.
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The world is not yet redeemed.
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Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
