Daniel Bell Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.
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I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times.
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If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.
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I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know?
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When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition.
