Ed Asner Quotes

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• There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
• The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a…
• A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.
• To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid…
• I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has…
• The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
• We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us,…
• I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.
• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
• As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody…
• I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in…
• I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
• Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.
• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
• Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
• I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
• I love acting.
• I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in…

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