Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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Imagine your son becomes your guardian, no matter my capabilities as a woman, I am still enslaved to somebody else. Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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We're a pretty strong bunch, and we have pretty lofty goals. For us, the manager is very important in a lot of ways, but also, we have a job to do, and that's to go out and win.
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I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.
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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
