"We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend."

-- George Eliot

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“Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.”

Source : William Blum (2014). “America's Deadliest Export: Democracy – The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else”, p.55, Zed Books Ltd.
“'An order is an order' was not an excuse to do the wrong thing. You couldn't just blindly follow a government order ... This whole issue of should the Supreme Court be the final arbiter of what is or isn't constitutional, was settled at Nuremberg. People everywhere need to understand and need to follow that.”
“I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?”

Source : "Bashir: Romney Not Presidential Material Because He Doesn't Drink". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 23, 2012.
“While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.”
“I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.”

Source : "Woody Harrelson: I'm an anarchist" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. May 31, 2013.
“and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.”

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