Michael Parenti Quotes

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

Michael Parenti

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I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

Jimmy Page

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I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

Angela Merkel

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I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

John Thune

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The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.

Jon Favreau

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When you're confined to a TV series, and you have to play one character, it can make you insane. But it didn't affect me. I got out in time.

Johnny Depp

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So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Dick Van Dyke

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People don't understand, and I do, is what happens after wrestling. What do you do when people stop chanting your name? For me, I already had that with the nightclub business before wrestling and now with DDP YOGA.

Diamond Dallas Page

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Just drawing on my own experience, I never - I never - personally reference myself as old. I don't think of myself as old, but I certainly would not say that to a man.

Connie Britton

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Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.

Clint Smith

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Congress votes for things the military doesn't want, and planes and other weaponry that cost a lot but don't work.

Bob Beckel

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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

Anthony Bourdain

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