Ian Frazier Quotes
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
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We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.
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Official history has been tampered with in the most extraordinary way, so that we continue to see the world in the child-like simplicity of good and evil, heroes and villains. The world is rarely like that. Therefore the need to create opposing 'sides' and encourage conflict becomes essential.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
