Pauline Kael Quotes
The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.
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And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.
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'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.
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The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.
