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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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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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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Everything is real on me.
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I am healthy and happy.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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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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Tapas is a celebration of life.
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Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.
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Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
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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.
