"I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on that chances are they're going to want that specific expert who has done it to be on the show talking about it, not a writer or an artist of any sort, which I think is a mistake because you know we don't have... I mean we have them, but there is certainly not you know in strong force public philosophers anymore."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

John Buffalo Mailer

#Strong Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Mean Quotes

“It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question." "What was that?" "Do you think we should ask Goatee Guy how to find the caterer?" I smiled at him innocently as his eyebrows pratically met above his nose. "I am never going to share my pet peeves with you again."”
“A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”
“I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.”

Source : "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.
“I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition. ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music.”
“It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.”

Source : "Redneck, Inc: The Duck Dynasty Story". Interview with Erik Hedegaard, www.mensjournal.com. October 5, 2013.
“While you're busy chasing your dream, don't forget to leave time for living - it's way too easy to run straight past what's truly important.”
“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”
“Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.”

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