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.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
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.
Adam McKay -
I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
Kara Swisher -
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.
Orson Scott Card -
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
Wendy Kopp -
I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
Kat Edmonson
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I am from Karnal, India.
Kalpana Chawla -
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
Gail Sheehy -
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman -
I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
Sal Albanese -
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young -
2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
Oliver Platt
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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.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis -
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
Gail Sheehy -
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.
Langston Hughes -
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.
Farrah Fawcett -
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.
Tavis Smiley
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I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.
Nicholson Baker -
When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
Edgar Cayce -
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
Christian Lous Lange -
When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
Emma Thompson -
I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.
Brad Garrett -
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin