Dinesh D'Souza Quotes
I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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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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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.
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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.
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I wanted just one thing – to disappear.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.
