James S. Coleman Quotes
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
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The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
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If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
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I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League'; when that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that. But as far as the amount of people in a time, nothing touches when those Capital One commercials were playing.
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I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.
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I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
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If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.
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Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
