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Norman Finkelstein Quotes

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

Norman Finkelstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1953

Topics

Mother Man Me You Young Young Man

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.

Jennifer McMahon

Family Child Hair Woods Feathers

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Maynard Webb

Work Talent Search Meaningful Lots

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.

Michael Dirda

Hope Myself Think Sometimes Need

I never saw the premise as 'Godless' is the story of a town full of women. I always saw 'Godless' as being made up of a lot of intersecting, related stories that literally meet in the final episode.

Merritt Wever

Women Story Meet Never Always Up

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Trey Anastasio

Writing You Want Finish Everything

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Ron Paul

War Profit Never Position Those

My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.

Michael Madsen

Work Good Hope Heart Career House

Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess.

Debbie Reynolds

Love Strength Child Her Every Ounce

I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.

Brooklyn Beckham

School High School Photography High

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

Anushka Sharma

Life Myself People Start My Life

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

Annie Dillard

Man Mind Forest Grass Never Who

Growing up, we had folk records.

Alison Krauss

Growing Up Growing Up Records Folk