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Quotes by Critic
"Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down."
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"They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news."
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"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."
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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."
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"You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane."
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"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in."
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"So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear."
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"The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation."
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"Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love."
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"I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour."
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"Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security."
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"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
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"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
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"I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus."
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"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
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"When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat."
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"We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia."
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"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion."
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"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."
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"How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me."
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"I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all."
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"Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time."
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"When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved."
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"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."
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"For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?"
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"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
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"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
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"Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing."
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"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."
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"When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase."
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"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do."
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"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
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"Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available."
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"Like many liberal men in the age of feminism, he believed women should have equal access to jobs and be given equal pay, but when it came to matters of home and heart he still believed caregiving was the female role. Like many men, he wanted a woman to be 'just like his mama' so that he did not have to do the work of growing up."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
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