Brewster Kahle Quotes
How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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It's funny when people say they see a lot of Madonna in me. I just feel so flattered because I love her and I am just her biggest fan. She is very strong. I love the way she does interviews -you know you won't get anything past her.
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I've seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there's not one decision he doesn't make that he doesn't bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that's invaluable.
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Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.
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How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
