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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One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.
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Lists are how I parse and manage the world.
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Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
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I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.
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I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.
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The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new.
