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 -
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
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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 -
I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
Halsey
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As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.
Amma Asante -
Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
Marat Safin -
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I am tone deaf.
Rachelle Lefevre -
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin