David Talbot Quotes

A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.

David Talbot

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ChangeEndPoliticalYouWayThings

You know the bark is worse than the bite in D.C.

John Ensign

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All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.

Melissa Etheridge

WomenMenEqualEverythingBetween

Gold is hoarded. It's estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

Robert Kiyosaki

GoldStillPercentAroundEver

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Jean Reno

LifePeopleFriendsSayRealOnly

America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

Michael Arrington

HateStartAmericaProblemFall

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

Amiri Baraka

BlackAmericaArtistRoleAidKnows

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

Michael Welch

PerformanceFreeSomeoneDoingMore

I want to be in 'Star Wars.' That would be amazing.

Luke Benward

AmazingWantStarWouldWars

I did go to a film school in Sarajevo. I studied film and theatre directing. There was a war raging in the country while I was studying, and we did not have neither electricity nor cinemas for three and a half years.

Jasmila Zbanic

SchoolWarTheatreElectricityThree

I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.

Chris Evans

GodThinkDoingYouPicturesKind

The best thing about running is that you can eat a lot and still feel OK.

Colin Egglesfield

BestFeelYouEatStillOK

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

Anne Lamott

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