Should Have Quotes — Page 43

Novelist, Screenwriter

“Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.”

Character Choices Should Have

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George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

“Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever seen the septa's legs?”

Girl Cutting Should Have

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GW

Gretchen Wilson

Singer, Songwriter

“All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.”

Should Should Have

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.”

Mean Voice

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George R. R. Martin

Novelist, Screenwriter

“Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, "Fly, you fools." What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.”

Thinking Fall Should Have

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the sciences, some of which they might be able to use for their purposes. That's why workers education, including science and mathematics, has commonly been a concern of left intellectuals.”

Wish Understanding Should Have

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.”

Rights Should Have Corporations

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.”

Rights Leader Should Have

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and even Europe and supported the military coup, still does. The ambassador in Honduras sent back a detailed analysis saying the coup was military, illegal, unconstitutional, and that the legitimate president was thrown out. Okay, we now know that Washington was perfectly aware of that and decided to support the military coup anyway. We should have known that at the time. The government has no right to keep that information secret.”

Military Should Have Latin

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we should have known it then. It's about exactly what's happening, how we can disregard public opinion as long as the dictators we support are capable of suppressing their populations. So to hell with public opinion. That's all right there in the 1950's. That's not security. That's not security of the government. That's, if anything, security from its own population. And there's a lot of that.”

Government Should Have Egypt

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous.”

Thinking Stories Should Have

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Activist

“The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not function merely as isolated "rational wealth maximizers."”

Should Have Wealth Motivated

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