Ken Auletta Quotes
Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
Quotes to Explore
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
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The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.
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As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Before recording my 'Homeland' audition on my iPhone in my bedroom in Streatham, I hadn't worked or had an audition in the U.K. for nine months.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.
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I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.
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Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
