"Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it."

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"Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it."

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"I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."

Rosemary Clooney, American Musician

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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."

Elton John, English Musician

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"You cannot have your cake and eat it."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."

John Drinkwater, English Poet

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"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."

Lindsay Lohan, American Actress

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"

Robert J. Flaherty, American Director

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"No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell."

Rosser Reeves, American Businessman

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"'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'"

Menander, Greek Poet

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"You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information."

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"I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today."

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"I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere."

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"My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?"

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"They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war."

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"We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name."

Work, War, Genocide, May

"If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military."

Business, Politics, Disasters, Military

"I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here."

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"Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible."

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"If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next."

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