Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.


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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
BARRY HANNAH
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That...
BARRY HANNAH
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain ...
BARRY HANNAH
Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little aw...
BARRY HANNAH
I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook a...
HANNAH STORM
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
HANOI HANNAH
I had to do something for the country.
HANOI HANNAH
And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
HANOI HANNAH
We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.
HANOI HANNAH
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast...
HANOI HANNAH
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the Fr...
HANOI HANNAH
Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
HANOI HANNAH
I would like to see America some day.
HANOI HANNAH
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstru...
HANOI HANNAH
I put my heart in my work.
HANOI HANNAH
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believ...
HANOI HANNAH
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
HANOI HANNAH
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn...
HANOI HANNAH
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
HANOI HANNAH
Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a frien...
HANOI HANNAH
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
HANOI HANNAH
This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
HANOI HANNAH
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the f...
HANOI HANNAH
I am happy with what I've done.
HANOI HANNAH
We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movemen...
HANNAH WARE
My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playli...
HANNAH WARE
I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort ...
HANNAH WARE
I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private ...
HANNAH WARE
I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don...
HANNAH WARE
I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very ...
HANNAH WARE
I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get anoth...
HANNAH WARE
Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love b...
HANNAH WARE
My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
HANNAH WARE
I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I...
HANNAH WARE
Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't re...
HANNAH WARE
My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how ...
HANNAH WARE
I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.
HANNAH TOINTON
To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it&...
HANNAH TOINTON
Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yo...
HANNAH TOINTON
I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and ...
HANNAH TOINTON
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career c...
HANNAH STORM
I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
HANNAH STORM