Noam Chomsky Quotes

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

Noam Chomsky

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IntelligenceYouTelevisionKnowSay

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.

John Barton

ProcessEndProvePointAnything

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

Meles Zenawi

PastProcessKnowNowMoreThan

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

GoodTruthPoliticsDoingNothing

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

John Sherman Cooper

ManWindowSeenTestsOnlyBullets

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

Stephanie Coontz

ChildrenParentsDetailCareRun

I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves 'born again' and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

Stephen Baldwin

PeopleThinkBornKindWayOut

You have to give people a reason to believe that, under your leadership, America will be better. Rick Santorum has done that.

Mike DeWine

LeadershipPeopleBelieveBetterYou

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Jean Anouilh

PoliticsNothingIrreparable

I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.

Jordan Bridges

LightColorThinkPhotographyActing

I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.

Donatella Versace

MyselfWomanClothesKnowWearWho

I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.

Dean Devlin

PhilosophyNeverAlwaysIncompetence

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Audrey Hepburn

ChildrenFoodMedicalWarWorld

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