Noam Chomsky Quotes

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

Noam Chomsky

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Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

Jewel

FreeMoreBandWithoutImprovise

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Jill Clayburgh

FamilyBirthdayGoodSonChildren

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.

Jenson Button

CarTimeRoadsMeDrivingEnough

I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

John Grisham

TimeWriteFirstWordBeforeSpend

Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.

John Hagel III

WorkPassionFindingTalkFollow

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

Andrew Motion

LifeI AmMeWritingMy LifeBack

In 1995, I sold the rights to Harry Bosch to Paramount. They had several screenplays written, but a movie never happened. Harry Bosch went on the shelf, and I had to wait 15 years to get him back.

Michael Connelly

WaitBackNeverHimYearsRights

Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

Merrie Spaeth

HimselfPeterConstantlyReinvented

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

John R. Allen

RelationshipDayPoliceDifficult

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that.

Amber Tamblyn

ThinkWayChameleonLikeI Think

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

ReligionPlaceServeFrenchState

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

Silvan Shalom

SuicideFenceMoreAgainstUsThan

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