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Noam Chomsky Quotes

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1928

Topics

World Difficult Up Even Many

If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.

Jeremy Grantham

Good People Saying Facts You Know

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances.

Live People Know Why Surprised

To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society.

Education Girl Children Mind Society

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.

You Little Actress Gymnastics Bit

I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.

Sports Football Baseball Busy Play

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Sad People Sadness Think Will

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Mary Lou Retton

Good Childhood People Think You Say

The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.

Law Lawyers House Special Counsel

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

Chiaki Kuriyama

Ideas Way First Pretty Would Some

I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.

Football Me Brain Think Important

The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

Brandon Stanton

Media Place Opposite Extreme Most

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

Time Fun New York Me Choices You

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