William Blum Quotes

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

William Blum

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1933

Topics

DemocracyViolenceDictatorship

On TV at night, I DVR lots of programs - I use it more like a magazine rack flipping through shows than actually watching them in full. 'Charlie Rose,' 'Meet the Press,' '60 Minutes' are musts for me. I also DVR 'NBC's Nightly News' and 'The Chris Matthews Show' on Sunday.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling.

Amitabh Bachchan

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I've had the two procedures that probably every other woman in Hollywood has had done.

Tori Spelling

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Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action.

Robin S. Sharma

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Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Roz Savage

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Ultimately, change will happen when problems persist and enough people are concerned.

Liu Xiaobo

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My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money because they earn their own money. I pay for their children's school fees.

Chen Guangbiao

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In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

Christian de Portzamparc

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It's very rare that I put makeup on.

Ashley Williams

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Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more - it's really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.

Audra McDonald

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I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in indie films and move into playing character leads.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

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