Adam Curtis Quotes

BP is accused of destroying the wildlife and coastline of America, but if you look back into history, you find that BP did something even worse to America. They gave the world Ayatollah Khomeini.

Adam Curtis

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I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

John Fogerty

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I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Amanda Palmer

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King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American. They earned poverty wages, endured degrading working conditions, and faced brutal beatings when they tried to organize.

Tom Perez

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Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lucan

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I truly love coming to work every day.

Loretta Lynch

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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

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I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christine Keeler

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I've always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don't mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer.

Coco Rocha

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On my tour, either they're coming to see me, or they're not.

Cole Swindell

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If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Arnold Rothstein

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Steve Earle had a mainstream career. Dwight Yoakam had a mainstream career. Willie Nelson did. But they always made good music, they always stuck to who they were. They weren't relying on radio like a lot of people are in Nashville.

Aubrie Sellers

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It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

Arthur Smith

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