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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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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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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At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.
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I'm very open-minded.
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I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.
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(The tournaments in) '93, '97 and '99 are the only three years that three No. 1 seeds made it to the Final Four.
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When you write a hit song, and you know it when it's done, it's one of the best feelings in the world.
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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
