Richard Ben Cramer Quotes

I was with the mujaheddin, the rebels, and they were fighting against the Russians, and they would bring me along. Some of the adventures, when I look back at them now, it's a wonder I'm still around.

Richard Ben Cramer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 12, 1950 - January 7, 2013

Topics

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In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

Jill Lepore

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Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

John Dingell

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I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

John Cassavetes

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I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

Maura Tierney

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Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.

Josh Holloway

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A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

Joseph Lancaster

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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I was just trickling releases out slowly and building the Deadmau5 brand slowly. There was never this big marketing machine behind it or anything like that.

Deadmau5

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Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

Christian Lous Lange

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Everyone in London, Wales, and France made the 'Merlin' experience a very, very special one.

Colin Morgan

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