Jonathan Turley Quotes

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.

Jonathan Turley

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I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and Eric driving. I just wrote the whole thing on my phone. I just typed out the lyrics.

Jessie James Decker

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There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.

Max Martin

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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Ambrose Bierce

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Sometimes I feel like 'Avenue Q' or even 'Book of Mormon' might not have happened without 'Urinetown.' 'Urinetown' sort of paved the way, just in terms of what Broadway would accept in its houses. It just blows my mind, the stuff 'Book of Mormon' gets away with. It's way farther across the line than 'Urinetown' ever was.

Spencer Kayden

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Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard and Keith Whitley - guys like that were huge influences.

Sturgill Simpson

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I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

Steven Soderbergh

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Spotify favors hits. It's very much a meritocracy: It's not like radio, where whatever is being played is what you hear. We offer songs up, and from there, it's up to consumers to stream the music or not.

Troy Carter

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I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

Shirley Manson

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There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.

Riz Ahmed

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I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Rosanna Arquette

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Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

Ron Suskind

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There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

Ruth Ozeki

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