Noam Chomsky Quotes

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.

Noam Chomsky

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I always say as a celebrity you have two choices - you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.

Amber Riley

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Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Robert D. Kaplan

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I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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One has to live with the fact that some corporate decisions are going to be wrong. As long as most of the decisions are right.

Michael Otto

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Something inside of me tells me that being homosexual is probably wrong.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.

Judith Rodin

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When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.

Judy Blume

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I sent some scenes from 'Life on Mars'... and then I didn't hear anything for about 48 hours, and I was sure that I wouldn't get this. Then I got a phone call saying, 'They want you to take the role of Jim Shannon on 'Terra Nova,' and would I be interested!

Jason O'Mara

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I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.

Arca

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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Anthony Trollope

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It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

Peter Ackroyd

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My dad was a mechanic, and I have great style memories of him. He wore, every single day: a blue chambray shirt, Levi's 501s, and Red Wing boots. And that certainly wasn't fashionable at the time; it was basically the opposite. And he wore these horn rim glasses that were very Sol Moscot.

Nick Wooster

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