Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.
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No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
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The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
