Dennis Prager Quotes
The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I was a tomboy.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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The Broadway audiences are very vocal and seem very engaged. For certain shows, especially with a show like 'The Heiress,' the audience's reactions sound like 'The Jerry Springer Show' sometimes. That seems to be a very New York thing. Oh, there's also the entrance round of applause here, which we don't get too much in London.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.
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The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
