Michael Finkel Quotes

The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.

Michael Finkel

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Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

Jody Williams

HomeControlGoSoldiersOutGuns

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.

Robert Plant

GreatDarknessFeelYearYouSee

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

Robert Reich

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There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

Jeb Bush

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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Merle Haggard

MusicYouWillOutAnythingSeem

But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.

Stuart Symington

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

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I get bored in Hollywood.

Rosie Perez

HollywoodBoredGet

There were times I was told, 'You are too gay.' I turned down a lot of things because producers said they wanted me to be different. I said, 'It's not going to happen.'

Ross Mathews

MeBe DifferentYouGayDownSaid

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

David Suzuki

MountainBrainAdaptOldYearsHigh

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Chuck Palahniuk

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It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

Brian Austin Green

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