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Noam Chomsky Quotes

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Respect Stress Law Fair Some Trial

Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.

Life Music Heart Voice Trying Way

For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.

Life Work Forever Adult Paid Writer

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

You Back Way Coming Destroy Haunt

Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician's Perspective.

Business Perspective Struggle People

Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.

Work Time Fate Present Universe You

To work with kids is difficult. To work with non-actors is difficult.

Michel Hazanavicius

Work Difficult Kids

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great Grief Sympathy End Does Put

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

Colin Trevorrow

Hero Thought Mad Kind Awesome Max

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

God Time Feeling Forget Spirit Over

I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.

Fall Rise Matter Industry Going

It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.

Life Sad Time Happy Better Just

I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.

Determination Persistence Proud End

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