Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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To North Korea, diplomacy is another form of war.
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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If pains be to be taken to give him a manly air and assurance betimes, it is chiefly as a fence to his virtue when he goes into the world under his own conduct.
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It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.
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The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
