Noam Chomsky Quotes

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

Noam Chomsky

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You get used to that work mode, get used to always doing something.

Joe Penny

WorkDoingYouAlwaysSomethingGet

I don't go to journalists' houses and start dishing about anything private.

Meghan McCain

StartGoAnythingHousesAbout

There's so many kids who only know me from the video game.

John Madden

MeGameKnowOnlyWhoKids

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

Robert Rauschenberg

SickSculptureGotJustReally

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

Matt Kemp

LifeDaySimpleThinkUnderstand

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

Steve Erickson

CharacterWordsMoviesBirthDriven

There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.

Steve Harvey

LifeMeMy LifeHandsDownNothing

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

Sophia Bush

WomenMenBelieveGenderYouRace

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Lukas Foss

GoodMusicGreatHappyMeFeel Good

When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.

Miranda Otto

IntelligencePeopleMeLunchWorking

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

PowerArtEndureFirstAspireAble

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

WisdomWitManyProverb

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