Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
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Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.
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I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
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The research needed for social practice can best be characterized as research for social management or social engineering. It is a type of action research, a comparative research of the conditions and effects of various forms of social action, and research leading to social action. Research that produces nothing but books will not suffice.
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In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.
